List of waves named after people

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This is a list of waves named after people (eponymous waves).

Wave Field Person(s) Named After
Alfvén wave Magnetohydrodynamics Hannes Alfvén
Bloch wave Solid State Physics, Condensed matter physics Felix Bloch
de Broglie wave Quantum physics Louis de Broglie
Draupner wave Oceanography, Water waves Draupner refers to the name of sea platform where Draupner wave was observed
Kelvin wave Oceanography, Atmospheric dynamics Lord Kelvin
Lamb wave Acoustics, Elastic waves Horace Lamb
Langmuir wave Plasma physics Irving Langmuir
Love wave Elastodynamics, Surface waves A. E. H. Love
Rayleigh wave or Rayleigh-Lamb wave Surface acoustic waves, Seismology Lord Rayleigh and Horace Lamb
Rossby wave Meteorology and Oceanography Carl-Gustaf Rossby
Stokes wave Ocean waves, Water waves George Gabriel Stokes
Tollmien-Schlichting wave Stability of laminar flows Walter Tollmien and Hermann Schlichting

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