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This is a list of
scientific phenomena and concepts named after people (eponymous phenomena). For other lists of eponyms, see
eponym.
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Baeyer–Drewson indigo synthesis –
Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf von Baeyer and
Viggo Drewsen
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Baeyer–Villiger oxidation and
Baeyer–Villiger rearrangement –
Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf von Baeyer and
Victor Villiger
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Babinet's principle –
Jacques Babinet
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Babler–Dauben oxidation –
James Babler and
William Garfield Dauben
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Bagnold number –
Ralph Alger Bagnold
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Baily's beads –
Francis Baily
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Baker–Nathan effect –
John William Baker and
Wilfred S. Nathan
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Bakerian mimicry –
Herbert G. Baker
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Baldwin effect (astronomy) –
Jack Allen Baldwin
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Baldwin effect (Baldwinian evolution, Ontogenic evolution) –
James Mark Baldwin
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Baldwin's rules –
Jack Edward Baldwin
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Balmer line,
series –
Johann Jakob Balmer
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Bamberger rearrangement –
Eugen Bamberger
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Bamford–Stevens reaction –
William Randall Bamford and
Thomas Stevens Stevens
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Barkhausen effect –
Heinrich Barkhausen
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Barnett effect –
Samuel Jackson Barnett
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Barnum effect (a.k.a.
Forer effect) –
Phineas Taylor Barnum (and
Bertram R. Forer)
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Barton reaction –
Derek Harold Richard Barton
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Barton–McCombie deoxygenation –
Derek Harold Richard Barton and
Stuart W. McCombie
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Baskerville effect – the fictional Charles Baskerville of the novel
The Hound of the Baskervilles
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Batesian mimicry –
Henry Walter Bates
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Bauschinger effect –
Johann Bauschinger
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Bayes's theorem –
Thomas Bayes
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Baylis–Hillman reaction –
Anthony B. Baylis and
Melville E. D. Hillman
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Bayliss effect –
William M. Bayliss
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BCS superconduction theory –
John Bardeen,
Leon Cooper, and
Robert Schrieffer
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Beaufort scale (Beaufort wind force scale) –
Francis Beaufort
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Beckmann rearrangement –
Ernst Otto Beckmann
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Beer's law (a.k.a.
Beer–Lambert law or
Beer–Lambert–Bouguer law) –
August Beer (and
Johann Heinrich Lambert and
Pierre Bouguer)
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Beilstein's test –
Friedrich Konrad Beilstein
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Bejan number –
Adrian Bejan
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Bekenstein bound –
Jacob Bekenstein
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Bélády's anomaly –
László Bélády
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Bell's inequality –
John Stewart Bell
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Bell number –
Eric Temple Bell
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Belousov–Zhabotinskii reaction –
Boris Pavlovich Belousov and
Anatol Markovich Zhabotinskii
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Bénard cell –
Henri Bénard
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Bénard–Marangoni cell/convection (a.k.a. Marangoni convection) –
Henri Bénard and
Carlo Marangoni
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Benedict's test –
Stanley Rossiter Benedict
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Benford's law –
Frank Albert Benford, Jr.
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Benioff zone – see
Wadati–Benioff zone, below
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Bennett pinch –
Willard Harrison Bennett
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Berezinsky–Kosterlitz–Thouless transition –
Veniamin L. Berezinsky,
John M. Kosterlitz, and
David J. Thouless
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Bergman cyclization –
Robert George Bergman
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Bergmann's rule –
Carl Bergmann (anatomist)
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Bergmann–Zervas carbobenzoxy method –
Max Bergmann and
Leonidas Zervas
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Bernoulli effect,
Bernoulli's equation,
principle –
Daniel Bernoulli
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Berry's phase –
Michael V. Berry
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Betz limit –
Albert Betz
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Bezold–Brücke shift (a.k.a.
von Bezold spreading effect) –
Johann Friedrich Wilhelm von Bezold and
Ernst Wilhelm von Brücke
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Biefeld–Brown effect –
Paul Alfred Biefeld and
Thomas Townsend Brown
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Biginelli reaction –
Pietro Biginelli
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Biot number –
Jean-Baptiste Biot
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Biot–Savart law –
Jean-Baptiste Biot and
Félix Savart
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Birch reduction –
Arthur John Birch
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Birkeland currents –
Kristian Birkeland
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Bischler–Napieralski reaction –
August Bischler and
Bernard Napieralski
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Black's equation for electromigration –
James R. Black (d. 2004) of
Motorola
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Blandford–Znajek process –
Roger D. Blandford and
Roman L. Znajek
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Blasius boundary layer, flow –
Paul Richard Heinrich Blasius
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Blazhko effect –
Sergey Blazhko
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Bloch electrons –
Felix Bloch
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Bloom filter –
Burton Howard Bloom
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Bodenstein number –
Max Bodenstein
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Bohm sheath criterion –
David Bohm
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Bohr effect –
Christian Bohr
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Bohr magneton,
model,
radius –
Niels Bohr
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Boltzmann constant –
Ludwig Boltzmann
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Bonnor–Ebert mass –
William Bowen Bonnor and
Rolf Ebert
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Borel algebra,
measure,
set,
space,
summation,
Borel's lemma,
paradox –
Émile Borel
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Borel–Cantelli lemma –
Émile Borel and
Francesco Paolo Cantelli
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Borel–Carathéodory theorem –
Émile Borel and
Constantin Carathéodory
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Born–Haber cycle –
Max Born and
Fritz Haber
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Born–Oppenheimer approximation –
Max Born and
Robert Oppenheimer
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Borodin–Hunsdiecker reaction –
Alexander Borodin,
Hienz Hunsdiecker, and
Clare Hunsdiecker (née Dieckmann)
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Borrmann effect (a.k.a.
Borrmann–Campbell effect) –
Gerhard Borrman (and
Herbert N. Campbell)
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Bortle scale –
John E. Bortle
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Bose–Einstein condensate,
effect,
statistics –
Satyendra Nath Bose and
Albert Einstein
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Boson –
Satyendra Nath Bose
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Boyer's law –
Carl Benjamin Boyer
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Boyle's law (a.k.a.
Boyle–Mariotte law) –
Robert Boyle (and
Edme Mariotte)
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Brackett line/series –
Frederick Sumner Brackett
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Bradford's law (of scattering) –
Samuel C. Bradford
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Braess's paradox –
Dietrich Braess
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Bragg angle,
Bragg's law,
Bragg plane –
William Henry Bragg and his son
William Lawrence Bragg
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Bragg diffraction –
William Lawrence Bragg
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Brans–Dicke theory –
Carl H. Brans and
Robert H. Dicke
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Bravais lattice –
Auguste Bravais
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Bravais–Miller indices (a.k.a.
Miller–Bravais indices) –
Auguste Bravais and
William Hallowes Miller
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Brayton cycle –
George B. Brayton
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Bredt's rule –
Julius Bredt
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Brewster's angle,
law –
David Brewster
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Brillouin zone –
Léon Brillouin
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Brinkman number –
Hendrik C. Brinkman
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Brook rearrangement –
Adrian Gibbs Brook
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Brooks's law (of software development) –
Frederick Phillips Brooks, Jr.
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Brownian motion &
Brown(ian) noise –
Robert Brown
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Bucherer reaction –
Hans Theodor Bucherer
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Büchi automata –
Julius Richard Büchi
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Buckingham π theorem –
Edgar Buckingham
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Burali-Forti paradox –
Cesare Burali-Forti
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Bürgi–Dunitz angle –
Hans-Beat Bürgi and
Jack David Dunitz
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Cabannes–Daure effect –
Jean Cabannes and
Pierre Daure
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Cadiot–Chodkiewicz coupling,
reaction –
Paul Cadiot and
Wladyslav Chodkiewicz
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Callendar effect –
Guy Stewart Callendar
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Callippic cycle –
Callippus of Cyzicus
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Calvin cycle (a.k.a.
Calvin–Benson cycle) –
Melvin Calvin (and
Andy Benson)
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Cannizzaro reaction –
Stanislao Cannizzaro
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Cardan angles (a.k.a.
Tait–Bryan angles) –
Gerolamo Cardano
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Carnot cycle,
number –
Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot
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Carpenter effect (a.k.a.
Ideomotor effect) –
William Benjamin Carpenter
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Cartan–Kähler theorem –
Élie Cartan,
Erich Kähler
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Casimir effect –
Hendrik Casimir
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Catalan's conjecture (a.k.a.
Mihăilescu's theorem),
Catalan numbers –
Eugène Charles Catalan
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Cauchy number (a.k.a.
Hooke number)
[1] –
Augustin-Louis Cauchy
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Cauchy–Kovalevskaya theorem –
Augustin-Louis Cauchy,
Sofia Kovalevskaya
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Cauer filter –
Wilhelm Cauer
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Chandler wobble –
Seth Carlo Chandler
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Chandrasekhar limit,
number –
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
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Chang–Refsdal lens –
Kyongae Chang and
Sjur Refsdal
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Chaplygin gas –
Sergey Alexeyevich Chaplygin
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Charles's law –
Jacques Charles
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Chebyshev distance,
equation,
filter,
linkage,
polynomials –
Pafnuty Chebyshev
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Chebyshev's inequality (a.k.a.
Bienaymé–Chebyshev inequality) –
Pafnuty Chebyshev (and
Irénée-Jules Bienaymé)
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Cherenkov radiation (a.k.a. Cherenkov–Vavilov radiation) –
Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov (and
Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov)
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Chichibabin reaction –
Alexei Yevgenievich Chichibabin
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Christiansen effect –
Christian Christiansen
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Christoffel symbol –
Elwin Bruno Christoffel
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Christofilos effect –
Nicholas Christofilos
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Chugaev elimination/reaction,
reagent –
Lev Aleksandrovich Chugaev
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Chwolson ring or
Chwolson–Einstein ring –
Orest Khvolson (and
Albert Einstein)
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Clairaut's relation,
theorem –
Alexis Claude Clairaut
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Claisen condensation,
rearrangement –
Rainer Ludwig Claisen
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Claisen–Schmidt condensation –
Rainer Ludwig Claisen and
J. Gustav Schmidt
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Clapp oscillator –
James K. Clapp
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Clarke orbit –
Arthur C. Clarke
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Clemmensen reduction –
Erik Christian Clemmensen
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Coanda effect –
Henri Coanda
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Coase theorem –
Ronald Coase
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Colburn–Chilton analogy (a.k.a. Colburn analogy) –
Allan Philip Colburn and
Thomas H. Chilton
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Coleman–Liau index –
Meri Coleman and
T. L. Liau
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Coleman–Mandula theorem –
Sidney Coleman and
Jeffrey Mandula
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Collatz conjecture (a.k.a. the Ulam conjecture (
Stanisław Ulam), Kakutani's problem (
Shizuo Kakutani), the Thwaites conjecture (Sir
Bryan Thwaites), Hasse's algorithm (
Helmut Hasse), the Syracuse problem) –
Lothar Collatz
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Colpitts oscillator –
Edwin H. Colpitts
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Compton effect,
scattering,
wavelength –
Arthur Compton
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Compton–Getting effect –
Arthur Compton and
Ivan A. Getting
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Conway base 13 function –
John H. Conway
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Coolidge effect – from a joke attributed to
John Calvin Coolidge, Jr.
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Cooper pair –
Leon Cooper
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Cope elimination,
rearrangement –
Arthur Clay Cope
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Corey–Fuchs reaction –
Elias James Corey and
Philip L. Fuchs
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Corey–Kim oxidation –
Elias James Corey and
Choung Un Kim
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Corey–Winter olefin synthesis –
Elias James Corey and
Roland Arthur Edwin Winter
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Coriolis effect –
Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis
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Cotton effect –
Aimé Auguste Cotton
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Cotton–Mouton effect –
Aimé Auguste Cotton and
Henri Mouton
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Coulomb's law –
Charles Augustin de Coulomb
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Coulter counter,
principle –
Wallace Henry Coulter
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Coxeter–Dynkin diagram –
Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter and
Eugene Borisovich Dynkin
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Crabtree effect –
Herbert Grace Crabtree
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Criegee reaction,
rearrangement –
Rudolf Criegee
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Curie point –
Pierre Curie
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Curry's paradox –
Haskell Curry
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Curtin–Hammett principle –
David Yarrow Curtin and
Louis Plack Hammett
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Curtius rearrangement –
Theodor Curtius
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Dakin reaction –
Henry Drysdale Dakin
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Dakin–West reaction –
Henry Drysdale Dakin and
Randolph West
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Dalton's law (of partial pressures) –
John Dalton
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Damerau–Levenshtein distance –
Frederick J. Damerau and
Vladimir Levenshtein
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Darboux function –
Jean Gaston Darboux
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Darcy's law –
Henry Darcy
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Darlington pair –
Sidney Darlington
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Darwin drift –
Charles Galton Darwin
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Darwin point,
Darwinism –
Charles Darwin
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Darzens condensation –
Auguste Georges Darzens
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Davies–Bouldin index (DBI) –
David L. Davies and
Donald W. Bouldin
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de Broglie wavelength –
Louis de Broglie
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de Bruijn sequences –
Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn
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de Haas–van Alphen effect –
Wander Johannes de Haas and
Pieter M. van Alphen
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de Haas–Shubnikov effect – see
Shubnikov–de Haas effect, below
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Deborah number – the prophetess
Deborah (Bible, Judges 5:5)
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Debye model –
Peter Joseph William Debye
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Debye–Falkenhagen effect –
Peter Joseph William Debye and
Hans Falkenhagen
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Richard Dedekind has many topics named after him; see biography article.
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Delbrück scattering –
Max Ludwig Henning Delbrück
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Delépine reaction –
Stéphane Marcel Delépine
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Dellinger effect (a.k.a.
Mögel–Dellinger effect) –
John Howard Dellinger (and
Hans Mögel)
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Demjanov rearrangement –
Nikolai Jakovlevich Demjanov
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Dermott's law –
Stanley Dermott
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Dess–Martin oxidation –
Daniel Benjamin Dess and
James Cullen Martin
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DeVries solar cycle – See Suess solar cycle, below
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Dice's coefficient –
Lee Raymond Dice
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Dieckmann condensation –
Walter Dieckmann
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Diels–Alder reaction –
Otto Paul Hermann Diels and
Kurt Alder
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Diophantine equation –
Diophantus of Alexandria
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Dirac comb,
fermion,
spinor,
equation,
delta function,
measure –
Paul Dirac
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Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet has dozens of formulas named after him, see
List of things named after Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet
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Divisia index –
François Divisia
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Doebner–Miller reaction –
Oscar Döbner (Doebner) and
Wilhelm von Miller
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Dollo's law –
Louis Dollo
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Donnan effect (a.k.a.
Gibbs–Donnan effect) – see
Gibbs–Donnan effect, below
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Doppler effect (a.k.a.
Doppler–Fizeau effect),
Doppler profile –
Christian Doppler (and
Hippolyte Fizeau)
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Downs–Thomson paradox –
Anthony Downs and
John Michael Thomson
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Drake equation (a.k.a.
Sagan equation,
Green Bank equation) –
Frank Drake (or
Carl Sagan or
Green Bank, West Virginia, home to the
National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO))
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Droste effect – Dutch chocolate maker
Droste
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Drude model –
Paul Drude
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Duff's device –
Tom Duff
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Duffing equation,
map –
Georg Duffing
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Duhamel's integral, and
principle –
Jean-Marie Constant Duhamel
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Dulong–Petit law –
Pierre Louis Dulong and
Alexis Thérèse Petit
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Dunitz angle – see
Bürgi–Dunitz angle, above
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Dunning–Kruger effect –
David Dunning and
Justin Kruger
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Dyson–Harrop satellite –
Brooks L. Harrop and
Freeman Dyson
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Faà di Bruno's formula –
Francesco Faà di Bruno
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Faraday constant,
effect,
Faraday's law of induction,
Faraday's law of electrolysis –
Michael Faraday
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Farnsworth–Hirsch fusor –
Philo T. Farnsworth and
Robert L. Hirsch
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Favorskii reaction,
rearrangement –
Alexei Yevgrafovich Favorskii
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Fenton reaction –
Henry John Horstman Fenton
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Fermat's principle –
Pierre de Fermat
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Fermi energy,
paradox,
surface,
Fermion –
Enrico Fermi
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Fermi–Dirac statistics –
Enrico Fermi and
Paul Dirac
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Ferrel cell –
William Ferrel
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Ferrers diagram (a.k.a.
Young diagram,
Ferrers graph) –
Norman Macleod Ferrers
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Feshbach resonance –
Herman Feshbach
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Feynman diagram –
Richard Feynman
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Finkelstein reaction –
Hans Finkelstein
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Fischer esterification,
indole synthesis –
Emil Hermann Fischer
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Fischer–Hafner reaction –
Ernst Otto Fischer and
Walter Hafner
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Fischer–Tropsch process –
Franz Joseph Emil Fischer and
Hans Tropsch
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Fischer–Hepp rearrangement –
Otto Philipp Fischer and
Eduard Hepp
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Fisher distribution –
Ronald A. Fisher
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Fisher equation –
Irving Fisher
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Fisher–Widom line –
Michael E. Fisher and
Benjamin Widom
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Fitts's law –
Paul M. Fitts
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Flesch–Kincaid readability test –
Rudolf F. Flesch and
J. Peter Kincaid
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Fletcher–Munson curves –
Harvey Fletcher and
Wilden A. Munson
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Flynn effect –
Jim Flynn
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Forbush effect –
Scott Ellsworth Forbush
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Forer effect (a.k.a.
Barnum effect) –
Bertram R. Forer (and
Phineas Taylor Barnum)
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Foucault pendulum –
Jean Bernard Léon Foucault
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Fourier number –
Joseph Fourier
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Fourier series –
Joseph Fourier
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Fourier–Motzkin elimination –
Joseph Fourier and
Theodore Motzkin
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Franck–Condon principle –
James Franck and
Edward Uhler Condon
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Franssen effect –
Nico Franssen
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Franz–Keldysh effect –
Walter Franz and
Leonid V. Keldysh
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Fraunhofer diffraction,
lines –
Joseph von Fraunhofer
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Freeman law –
Ken Freeman
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Frenkel line –
Jacov Frenkel
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Fresnel zone –
Augustin Fresnel
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Frey effect –
Allan H. Frey
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Friedel oscillations –
Jacques Friedel
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Friedel–Crafts reaction –
Charles Friedel and
James Mason Crafts
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Friedländer synthesis –
Paul Friedländer
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Friedmann–Lemaître–Robertson–Walker metric (a.k.a.
Friedmann–Robertson–Walker metric,
Robertson–Walker metric) –
Alexander Friedmann,
Georges Lemaître,
Howard P. Robertson and
Arthur Geoffrey Walker
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Fries and
photo-Fries rearrangement –
Karl Theophil Fries
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Fritsch–Buttenberg–Wiechell rearrangement –
Paul Ernst Moritz Fritsch,
Wilhelm Paul Buttenberg, and
Heinrich G. Wiechell
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Frobenius algebra,
automorphism,
method,
norm,
theorem –
Ferdinand Georg Frobenius
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Froude number –
William Froude
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Fry readability formula –
Edward Fry
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Fujita scale (a.k.a. F-Scale,
Fujita–Pearson scale) –
Tetsuya Theodore Fujita (and
Allen Pearson)
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Fujiwhara effect –
Sakuhei Fujiwhara
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Gabriel synthesis –
Siegmund Gabriel
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Gardner transition –
Elizabeth Gardner
- Garman limit –
Elspeth Garman
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Gattermann reaction –
Ludwig Gattermann
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Gattermann–Koch reaction –
Ludwig Gattermann and
Julius Arnold Koch
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Gaunt factor (or Kramers–Gaunt factor) –
John Arthur Gaunt (and
Hendrik Anthony Kramers)
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Gause's principle –
Georgii Gause
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Gauss's law –
Carl Friedrich Gauss
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Gauss–Bonnet gravity,
theorem –
Carl Friedrich Gauss and
Pierre Ossian Bonnet
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Geib–Spevack process (a.k.a. Girdler sulfide (GS) process) –
Karl-Hermann Geib and
Jerome S. Spevack (and the Girdler company, which built the first American plant using the process)
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Geiger counter (a.k.a.
Geiger–Müller counter) –
Johannes Wilhelm (Hans) Geiger (and
Walther Müller)
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Geiger–Marsden experiment (a.k.a.
Rutherford experiment) –
Johannes Wilhelm (Hans) Geiger and
Ernest Marsden
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Geiger–Müller tube –
Johannes Wilhelm (Hans) Geiger and
Walther Müller
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Geiger–Nuttall law/rule –
Johannes Wilhelm (Hans) Geiger and
John Mitchell Nuttall
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Geissler tube –
Heinrich Geissler
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Gibbs entropy,
free energy,
paradox,
Gibbs's phase rule,
Gibbs phenomenon –
Josiah Willard Gibbs
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Gibbs–Donnan effect (a.k.a.
Donnan effect) –
Josiah Willard Gibbs and
Frederick G. Donnan
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Gibbs–Marangoni effect (a.k.a.
Marangoni effect) –
Josiah Willard Gibbs and
Carlo Marangoni
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Gibbs–Helmholtz equation –
Josiah Willard Gibbs and
Hermann von Helmholtz
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Gibbs–Thomson effect –
Josiah Willard Gibbs and three Thomsons:
James Thomson,
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin,
Joseph John "J. J." Thomson
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Giffen good –
Robert Giffen
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Gleissberg solar cycle –
Wolfgang Gleißberg
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Gloger's rule –
Constantin Wilhelm Lambert Gloger
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Goldbach's conjecture –
Christian Goldbach
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Goldstone boson (a.k.a.
Nambu–Goldstone boson) – see Nambu–Goldstone boson, below
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Gomberg–Bachmann reaction –
Moses Gomberg and
Werner Emmanuel Bachmann
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Goodhart's law –
Charles Goodhart
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Goos–Hänchen effect or shift –
Fritz Goos and
Hilda Hänchen
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Gould Belt –
Benjamin Gould
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Grashof number –
Franz Grashof
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Greisen–Zatsepin–Kuzmin cut-off/limit (a.k.a. GZK cutoff/limit) –
Kenneth Greisen,
Georgiy Zatsepin and
Vadim Kuzmin
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Gresham's law –
Thomas Gresham
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Griess test (diazotization reaction) –
Johann Peter Griess
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Grignard reaction –
François Auguste Victor Grignard
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Grob fragmentation –
Cyril A. Grob
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Gromov–Witten invariant –
Mikhail Gromov and
Edward Witten
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Grosch's law –
Herbert Reuben John Grosch
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Grotrian diagram –
Walter Robert Wilhelm Grotrian
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Grotthuss chain –
Christian Johann Dietrich Theodor von Grotthuss
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Grotthuss–Draper law –
Christian Johann Dietrich Theodor von Grotthuss and
John William Draper
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Gunn diode,
effect –
John Battiscombe "J. B." Gunn
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Gunning fog index – Robert Gunning
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Gustafson's law, a.k.a.
Gustafson–Barsis's law –
John L. Gustafson (and
Edward H. Barsis)
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Gutenberg–Richter law –
Beno Gutenberg and
Charles Francis Richter
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Haar measure –
Alfréd Haar
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Hadamard inequality –
Jacques Solomon Hadamard
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Hadamard transform (a.k.a. Hadamard–Rademacher–Walsh transform) –
Jacques Hadamard,
Hans Rademacher, and
Joseph L. Walsh
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Hadley cell –
George Hadley
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Hagedorn temperature –
Rolf Hagedorn
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Haitz's law –
Roland Haitz
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Haldane effect –
John Scott Haldane
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Haldane's principle –
John Burdon Sanderson Haldane
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Hale solar cycle –
George Ellery Hale
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Hall effect –
Edwin Hall
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Hamilton's rule –
William Donald "Bill" Hamilton
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Hamming code,
Hamming distance,
Hamming weight –
Richard Hamming
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Hammond postulate –
George Simms Hammond
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Hanle effect –
Wilhelm Hanle
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Hardy notation,
space –
Godfrey Harold Hardy
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Hardy–Littlewood circle method,
first conjecture –
Godfrey Harold Hardy and
John E. Littlewood
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Hardy–Weinberg principle –
Wilhelm Weinberg and
Godfrey Harold Hardy
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Harrod–Johnson diagram –
Roy F. Harrod and
Harry G. Johnson
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Hartley oscillator –
Ralph Hartley
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Hartman effect –
Thomas E. Hartman
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Hartmann mask (or hat) –
Johannes Hartmann
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Hartree energy –
Douglas Hartree
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Hasse's algorithm – see
Collatz conjecture, above
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Hasse diagram,
principle –
Helmut Hasse
-
Hasse–Minkowski theorem –
Helmut Hasse and
Hermann Minkowski
-
Hausdorff dimension –
Felix Hausdorff
-
Hawthorne effect – from the
Hawthorne Works factory (where experiments were carried out 1924–1932)
-
Hayashi track –
Chushiro Hayashi
-
Hayflick limit –
Leonard Hayflick
-
Hawking radiation (a.k.a.
Bekenstein–Hawking radiation) –
Stephen Hawking (and
Jacob Bekenstein)
- Heaviside layer – see
Kennelly–Heaviside layer
-
Hebbian learning –
Donald Olding Hebb
-
Heine–Borel theorem –
Heinrich Eduard Heine and
Émile Borel
-
Heinlein's razor – see
Hanlon's razor, above
-
Heisenberg uncertainty principle –
Werner Heisenberg
-
Hellmann–Feynman theorem –
Hans Hellmann and
Richard Feynman
-
Helmholtz free energy,
Helmholtz resonance –
Hermann von Helmholtz
-
Hénon map –
Michel Hénon
-
Hénon–Heiles system, potential –
Michel Hénon and
Carl E. Heiles
-
Henrietta's law – see Leavitt's law, below
-
Henyey track –
Louis G. Henyey
-
Herbig Ae/Be star –
George Herbig
-
Herbig–Haro object –
George Herbig and
Guillermo Haro
-
Herbrand base,
interpretation,
structure,
universe, and
Herbrand's theorem –
Jacques Herbrand
-
Hertz effect –
Heinrich Rudolf Hertz
-
Hertzsprung–Russell diagram –
Ejnar Hertzsprung and
Henry Norris Russell
-
Hess afterimage –
Carl von Hess
-
Hess diagram – R. Hess
-
Heusler alloy –
Fritz Heusler
-
Heyting algebra,
arithmetic –
Arend Heyting
-
Hick's law, a.k.a. Hick–Hyman law –
William Edmund Hick and
Ray Hyman
-
Higgs boson,
field –
Peter Higgs
-
Higgs mechanism – see
Anderson–Higgs mechanism, above
-
Hilbert–Waring theorem (a.k.a.
Waring's problem) –
David Hilbert and
Edward Waring
-
Hill sphere (a.k.a.
Roche sphere) –
George William Hill (and
Édouard Roche)
-
Hills cloud –
Jack G. Hills
-
Hipparchic cycle –
Hipparchus of Nicaea (a.k.a. Hipparchus of Rhodes)
-
Hirayama family –
Kiyotsugu Hirayama
-
Hirsch–Meeks fusor –
Robert L. Hirsch and
Gene A. Meeks
-
Hofstadter's butterfly,
law –
Douglas Hofstadter
-
Hopfield network –
John J. Hopfield
-
Hořava–Lifshitz gravity –
Petr Hořava and
Evgeny Lifshitz
-
Hořava–Witten domain wall –
Petr Hořava and
Edward Witten
-
Hubbert peak –
Marion King Hubbert
-
Hubble constant,
expansion –
Edwin Hubble
-
Hubble–Reynolds law –
Edwin Hubble and
John Henry Reynolds
-
Huchra's Lens –
John Huchra
-
Humphreys line/series –
Curtis J. Humphreys
-
Hund's Rules –
Friedrich Hund
-
Hunsdiecker reaction –
Heinz Hunsdiecker and
Cläre Hunsdiecker
-
Huygens–Fresnel principle –
Christiaan Huygens and
Augustin-Jean Fresnel
I
J
K
-
K3 surface –
Ernst Kummer,
Erich Kähler,
Kunihiko Kodaira
-
Kähler differential,
manifold,
metric –
Erich Kähler
-
Kakutani's problem – see
Collatz conjecture, above
-
Kármán vortex street –
Theodore von Kármán
-
Karnaugh map (a.k.a.
Karnaugh–Veitch map,
Veitch diagram) –
Maurice Karnaugh (and
Edward W. Veitch)
-
Karush–Kuhn–Tucker conditions (a.k.a. Kuhn–Tucker conditions) –
William Karush,
Harold W. Kuhn and
Albert W. Tucker
-
Kasha's rule –
Michael Kasha
-
Kater's pendulum – Captain
Henry Kater
-
Kaye effect –
Alan Kaye
-
Keeling curve –
Charles David Keeling
-
Kelvin wave –
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
-
Kelvin–Helmholtz mechanism,
instability –
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin and
Hermann von Helmholtz
- Kelvin–Joule effect (a.k.a.
Joule–Thomson effect) –
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin and
James Prescott Joule
-
Kelvin–Voigt material,
model –
Woldemar Voigt and
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
-
Kennelly–Heaviside layer –
Arthur Edwin Kennelly and
Oliver Heaviside
-
Kennicutt–Schmidt law (a.k.a. Schmidt–Kennicutt law, or Schmidt law) –
Maarten Schmidt and
Robert Kennicutt
-
Kepler's laws of planetary motion –
Johannes Kepler
-
Kerr effect –
John Kerr
-
Kirkendall effect –
Ernest Kirkendall
-
Kleene star (a.k.a. Kleene operator, Kleene closure) –
Stephen Kleene
-
Klein–Gordon equation –
Oskar Klein and
Walter Gordon
-
Klein–Nishina effect –
Oskar Klein and
Yoshio Nishina
-
Knudsen cell,
number –
Martin Hans Christian Knudsen
-
Kodaira dimension,
embedding theorem,
vanishing theorem –
Kunihiko Kodaira
-
Koenigs–Knorr reaction –
Wilhelm Koenigs and
Edward Knorr
-
Kohn effect –
Walter Kohn
-
Kohn–Sham equations –
Walter Kohn and
Lu Jeu Sham
-
Kohonen network –
Teuvo Kohonen
-
Kolakoski sequence –
William Kolakoski
-
Kolbe electrolysis –
Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe
-
Kolbe–Schmitt reaction –
Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe and
Rudolf Schmitt
-
Kondo effect –
Jun Kondo
-
Kornblum oxidation –
Nathan Kornblum
-
Kornblum–DeLaMare rearrangement –
Nathan Kornblum and
Harold E. DeLaMare
-
Kossel effect –
Walther Kossel
-
Kosterlitz–Thouless transition – see Berezinsky–Kosterlitz–Thouless transition, above
-
Kozai effect –
Yoshihide Kozai
-
Krebs cycle –
Hans Adolf Krebs
-
Kratzer potential –
Adolf Kratzer
-
Kronecker delta –
Leopold Kronecker
- Kuhn–Tucker conditions – see
Karush–Kuhn–Tucker conditions, above
-
Kuiper belt –
Gerard Kuiper
-
Kummer's function,
Kummer surface –
Ernst Kummer
-
Kuramoto model –
Yoshiki Kuramoto
L
-
Lagrangian mechanics,
Lagrange points –
Joseph-Louis Lagrange
-
Lamb shift –
Willis Lamb
-
Lambert's cosine law (a.k.a. Lambert's emission law) –
Johann Heinrich Lambert
-
Landau damping,
pole –
Lev Davidovich Landau
-
Landau–Pomeranchuk–Migdal effect –
Lev Davidovich Landau,
Isaak Pomeranchuk, and
Arkady Migdal
-
Landau–Zener transition –
Lev Davidovich Landau and
Clarence Zener
-
Landé g-factor –
Alfred Landé
-
Langmuir probe –
Irving Langmuir
-
Langmuir–Blodgett film –
Irving Langmuir and
Katharine B. Blodgett
- Laplace vector – see Laplace–Runge–Lenz vector, below
-
Laplace–Runge–Lenz vector (a.k.a. LRL vector, Laplace vector, Runge–Lenz vector, Lenz vector) –
Pierre-Simon de Laplace,
Carl Runge and
Wilhelm Lenz
-
Larmor frequency,
precession,
radius –
Joseph Larmor
-
Larsen effect –
Søren Absalon Larsen
-
Laspeyres index –
Ernst Louis Etienne Laspeyres
-
Leavitt's law (a.k.a.
Henrietta's law) –
Henrietta Swan Leavitt
-
Le Chatelier's principle –
Henri Louis Le Chatelier
-
Lee distance –
C. Y. Lee
-
Leidenfrost effect,
point –
Johann Gottlob Leidenfrost
-
Lenard effect –
Philipp Eduard Anton von Lenard
-
Lennard-Jones potential –
John Lennard-Jones
-
Lense–Thirring effect (a.k.a.
Thirring effect) –
Josef Lense and
Hans Thirring
- Lenz vector – see Laplace–Runge–Lenz vector, above
-
Lenz's law –
Heinrich Friedrich Emil Lenz
-
Leonard–Merritt mass estimator – Peter Leonard and
David Merritt
-
Levenshtein distance,
automaton –
Vladimir Levenshtein
-
Levi-Civita symbol –
Tullio Levi-Civita
-
Lewis–Mogridge Position –
David Lewis and
Martin J. H. Mogridge
-
Little–Parks effect –
William A. Little [
de] and
Roland D. Parks
-
Littlewood–Offord problem –
John E. Littlewood and
A. Cyril Offord
-
Locard's exchange principle –
Edmond Locard
-
Lombard effect –
Étienne Lombard
-
London force –
Fritz London
-
Lorentz force,
transformation –
Hendrik Antoon Lorentz
-
Lorentz–Lorenz equation –
Hendrik Antoon Lorentz and
Ludvig Lorenz
-
Lorenz attractor –
Edward Norton Lorenz
-
Lorenz curve –
Max O. Lorenz
-
Lorenz gauge condition –
Ludvig Lorenz
-
Lorenz–Mie scattering – see
Mie scattering, below
-
Loschmidt's paradox –
Johann Josef Loschmidt
-
Lotka's law –
Alfred J. Lotka
-
Lotka–Volterra equation –
Alfred J. Lotka and
Vito Volterra
-
Love waves –
Augustus Edward Hough Love
-
Lucas critique –
Robert Lucas, Jr.
-
Lyapunov's central limit theorem,
equation,
exponent,
fractal,
function,
stability,
test,
time and
tube –
Aleksandr Mikhailovich Lyapunov
-
Lyman line,
series –
Theodore Lyman
M
-
Mach band/effect,
number,
principle –
Ernst Mach
-
Mach–Zehnder interferometer –
Ludwig Mach and
Ludwig Zehnder
-
Madelung constant,
rule,
energy –
Erwin Madelung
- Maggi–Righi–Leduc effect (
Thermal Hall effect) –
Gian Antonio Maggi,
Augusto Righi and
Sylvestre Anatole Leduc
-
Magnus effect –
Heinrich Gustav Magnus
-
Magorrian relation –
John Magorrian
-
Mahalanobis distance –
Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis (প্রশান্ত চন্দ্র মহলানবিস)
-
Mahler measure,
Mahler's theorem –
Kurt Mahler
-
Malmquist bias,
effect –
Karl Gunnar Malmquist
-
Malus's law –
Étienne-Louis Malus
-
Malthusian parameter – named by
Ronald Fisher as a criticism of
Thomas Robert Malthus
-
Malthusian catastrophe,
growth model –
Thomas Robert Malthus
-
Marangoni cell/convection (a.k.a.
Bénard–Marangoni convection) – see Bénard–Marangoni cell/convection, above
-
Marangoni effect (a.k.a.
Gibbs–Marangoni effect) – see
Gibbs–Marangoni effect, above
-
Markov's inequality,
chain,
partition,
Markovian process –
Andrey Markov
-
Mathieu functions –
Émile Léonard Mathieu
-
Matilda effect –
Matilda Joslyn Gage
-
Matthew effect –
Matthew the Evangelist
-
Maxwell–Boltzmann distribution –
James Clerk Maxwell and
Ludwig Boltzmann
-
McCollough effect –
Celeste McCollough
-
McCulloch–Pitts neuron –
Warren McCulloch and
Walter Pitts
-
McGurk effect (a.k.a.
McGurk–MacDonald effect) –
Harry McGurk (and John MacDonald)
-
Mealy machine –
George H. Mealy
-
Meissner effect (a.k.a.
Meissner–Ochsenfeld effect) –
Walther Meissner (and
Robert Ochsenfeld)
-
Mendelian inheritance –
Gregor Mendel
-
Mercalli intensity scale (Modified Mercalli scale) –
Giuseppe Mercalli
-
Metonic cycle –
Meton of Athens
-
Meyers synthesis –
Albert I. Meyers
-
Mie scattering (a.k.a.
Lorenz–Mie scattering) –
Gustav Mie (and
Ludvig Lorenz)
-
Mihăilescu's theorem (a.k.a.
Catalan's conjecture) –
Preda Mihăilescu
-
Mikheyev–Smirnov–Wolfenstein effect –
Stanislav Mikheyev,
Alexei Smirnov, and
Lincoln Wolfenstein
-
Miller effect –
John Milton Miller
-
Miller indices (a.k.a.
Miller–Bravais indices) –
William Hallowes Miller (and
Auguste Bravais)
-
Misnay–Schardin effect – Col. József Misnay and
Hubert Schardin
-
Mögel–Dellinger effect – see
Dellinger effect, above
-
Mohorovičić discontinuity (Moho) –
Andrija Mohorovičić
-
Mohr's circle –
Christian Otto Mohr
-
Mohr–Coulomb theory –
Christian Otto Mohr and
Charles-Augustin de Coulomb
-
Mooers's law –
Calvin Mooers
-
Moore machine –
Edward Forrest Moore
-
Moore's law –
Gordon E. Moore
-
Morgan unit –
Thomas Hunt Morgan
-
Moreton wave –
Gail E. Moreton
-
Morse potential –
Philip M. Morse
-
Moses effect – after biblical
Moses
-
Mössbauer effect –
Rudolf Mössbauer
-
Mott cross section,
Mott insulator,
Mott transition –
Nevill Francis Mott
-
Mpemba effect –
Erasto B. Mpemba
-
Müllerian mimicry –
Fritz Müller
-
Munroe effect –
Charles Edward Munroe
-
Muraour's law –
Henri Muraour (1880–1954)
-
Murphy's law – Maj.
Edward A. Murphy, Jr.
N
O
P
-
Paal–Knorr synthesis –
Carl Paal and
Ludwig Knorr
-
Pareto chart,
distribution,
efficiency,
index,
principle –
Vilfredo Federico Damaso Pareto
-
Pareto–Zipf law (a.k.a.
Zipf–Mandelbrot law) –
Vilfredo Pareto and
George K. Zipf (or
Benoît Mandelbrot)
-
Parrondo's games,
paradox –
Juan Manuel Rodríguez Parrondo
-
Paschen curve,
line,
law –
Friedrich Paschen
-
Paschen–Back effect –
Friedrich Paschen and
Ernst Back
-
Pasteur effect –
Louis Pasteur
-
Paternò–Büchi reaction –
Emanuele Paternò and
George Büchi
-
Pauli exclusion principle –
Wolfgang Pauli
-
Peano curve –
Giuseppe Peano
-
Pearson–Anson effect –
Stephen Oswald Pearson and
Horatio Saint George Anson
-
Péclet number –
Jean Claude Eugène Péclet
-
Peltier effect –
Jean Charles Athanase Peltier
-
Perlin noise –
Ken Perlin
-
Perron–Frobenius theorem –
Oskar Perron, and
Ferdinand Georg Frobenius
-
Petkau effect –
Abram Petkau
-
Petri dish –
Julius Richard Petri
-
Petri net –
Carl Adam Petri
-
Peyer's patches –
Johann Conrad Peyer
-
Pfeiffer effect –
Paul Pfeiffer
-
Pfund line/series –
August Herman Pfund
-
Phillips curve –
William Phillips (economist)
-
Pigou effect –
Arthur Cecil Pigou
-
Piobert's law –
Guillaume Piobert (1793–1871)
-
Pisot–Vijayaraghavan number –
Charles Pisot and
Tirukkannapuram Vijayaraghavan
-
Planck constant,
length,
mass,
time –
Max Planck
-
Platonic year –
Plato
-
Pockels effect –
Friedrich Carl Alwin Pockels
-
Pogson ratio –
Norman Robert Pogson
-
Poincaré map,
section –
Henri Poincaré
-
Poincaré–Bendixson theorem –
Henri Poincaré and
Ivar Otto Bendixson
-
Poinsot's spirals –
Louis Poinsot
-
Polchinski's paradox –
Joseph Polchinski
-
Potts model (a.k.a.
Ashkin–Teller model) –
Renfrey B. Potts,
Julius Ashkin, and
Edward Teller
-
Pourbaix diagram –
Marcel Pourbaix
-
Poynting effect,
vector –
John Henry Poynting
-
Poynting–Robertson effect –
John Henry Poynting and
Howard P. Robertson
-
Prandtl number –
Ludwig Prandtl
-
Primakoff effect –
Henry Primakoff
-
Proteus phenomenon –
Proteus (mythological god)
-
Pulfrich effect –
Carl P. Pulfrich
-
Purkinje effect/shift –
Johannes Evangelista Purkinje
-
Pygmalion effect (a.k.a.
Rosenthal effect,
observer-expectancy effect) –
Pygmalion (and
Robert Rosenthal)
-
Pythagorean theorem (a.k.a. Pythagoras's theorem) –
Pythagoras
R
-
Rabi oscillations –
Isidor Isaac Rabi
-
Rademacher distribution,
function,
series,
sum –
Hans Adolph Rademacher
-
Rademacher–Menchov theorem –
Hans Adolph Rademacher and
Dmitrii Menshov
-
Radon transform –
Johann Karl August Radon
-
Raman scattering –
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
-
Ramsauer–Townsend effect (a.k.a.
Ramsauer effect,
Townsend effect) –
Carl Ramsauer and
John Sealy Townsend
-
Ramsden circle/disc/eyepoint,
eyepiece –
Jesse Ramsden
-
Ramsey theory –
Frank Plumpton Ramsey
-
Rapoport's rule –
Eduardo H. Rapoport
-
Raychaudhuri's equation –
Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri (অমল কুমার রায়চৌধুরী)
-
Raygor Estimate Graph –
Alton L. Raygor
-
Rayleigh criterion,
distribution,
fading,
number,
quotient,
scattering,
waves –
Lord Rayleigh
-
Rayleigh–Bénard cell/convection –
Lord Rayleigh and
Henri Bénard
-
Rayleigh–Jeans law –
Lord Rayleigh and
James Jeans
-
Rayleigh–Taylor instability –
Lord Rayleigh and
G. I. Taylor
-
Rees–Sciama effect –
Martin Rees and
Dennis Sciama
-
Reidemeister moves –
Kurt Reidemeister
-
Résal effect –
Louis-Jean Résal
-
Rescorla–Wagner rule –
Robert A. Rescorla and
Allan R. Wagner
-
Reynolds number,
Reynolds analogy –
Osborne Reynolds
-
Ribot's law (of Retrograde Amnesia) –
Théodule-Armand Ribot
-
Ricardian equivalence (a.k.a. Barro–Ricardo equivalence, or Ricardo–de Viti–Barro equivalence) –
Robert Barro,
David Ricardo, and
Antonio de Viti de Marco
-
Richards controller –
Charles L. Richards
-
Richardson's constant,
equation,
law –
Owen Willans Richardson
-
Richardson number –
Lewis Fry Richardson
-
Richter magnitude scale –
Charles Francis Richter
-
Righi–Leduc effect (a.k.a.
Leduc–Righi effect) –
Augusto Righi and
Sylvestre Anatole Leduc
-
Ringelmann effect –
Max Ringelmann
-
Robertson–Walker metric (a.k.a. Friedmann–Robertson–Walker metric) – see
Friedmann–Lemaître–Robertson–Walker metric, above
-
Roche limit –
Édouard Roche
-
Roche sphere (a.k.a.
Hill sphere) –
Édouard Roche (and
George William Hill)
-
Rollin film –
Bernard V. Rollin
-
Rosenthal effect (a.k.a.
Pygmalion effect,
observer-expectancy effect) –
Robert Rosenthal (and
Pygmalion)
-
Rossby waves –
Carl-Gustaf Arvid Rossby
-
Rossi–Forel scale –
Michele Stefano Conte de Rossi and
François-Alphonse Forel
-
Rössler equation –
Otto Rössler
-
Rossmann fold –
Michael Rossmann
-
Royer oscillator –
George H. Royer
-
Ruelle operator,
zeta function –
David Ruelle
-
Ruelle–Perron–Frobenius theorem –
David Ruelle,
Oskar Perron, and
Ferdinand Georg Frobenius
-
Ruhmkorff coil –
Heinrich D. Ruhmkorff
- Runge–Lenz vector – see Laplace–Runge–Lenz vector
-
Runge's phenomenon –
Carle David Tolmé Runge
-
Russell's paradox –
Bertrand Russell
-
Rutherford experiment (a.k.a.
Geiger–Marsden experiment),
scattering –
Ernest Rutherford
-
Rybczynski theorem –
Tadeusz Rybczynski
-
Rydberg constant,
formula –
Johannes Rydberg
-
Rydberg–Klein–Rees method –
Johannes Rydberg,
Oskar Klein, and Albert Lloyd George Rees
S
-
Sabatier or
Sabattier effect – Sabat[t]ier,
first name unknown
-
Sachs–Wolfe effect –
Rainer K. Sachs and
Arthur M. Wolfe
-
Saffir–Simpson hurricane wind scale –
Herbert S. Saffir and
Robert ("Bob") Simpson
-
Sagnac effect –
Georges Sagnac
-
Saha ionization equation (a.k.a. Saha–Langmuir equation) –
Megh Nad Saha (মেঘনাদ সাহা) (and
Irving Langmuir)
-
Salem number –
Raphaël Salem
-
Sapir–Whorf hypothesis –
Edward Sapir and
Benjamin Whorf
-
Sasakian manifold,
metric –
Shigeo Sasaki
-
Say's law –
Jean-Baptiste Say
-
Scheerer's phenomenon (Blue field entoptic phenomenon) –
Richard Scheerer
-
Schering Bridge –
Harald Schering
-
Schild plot,
regression analysis –
Heinz Otto Schild
- Schmidt law, Schmidt–Kennicutt law – see
Kennicutt–Schmidt law, above
-
Schottky effect –
Walter H. Schottky
-
Schröter effect –
Johann Hieronymus Schröter
-
Schülen–Wilson effect – see
Wilson effect, below
-
Schuler period,
tuning –
Maximilian Schuler
-
Schultz's rule –
Adolph Hans Schultz
-
Schumann–Runge bands –
Victor Schumann and
Carle David Tolmé Runge
-
Schwabe solar cycle –
Samuel Heinrich Schwabe
-
Schwarzschild effect,
metric,
radius –
Karl Schwarzschild
-
Scott effect –
Elizabeth L. Scott
-
Secchi (stellar) class,
depth,
disk –
Pietro Angelo Secchi
-
Seebeck effect –
Thomas Johann Seebeck
-
Seiberg–Witten gauge theory –
Nathan Seiberg and
Edward Witten
-
Seiberg–Witten invariant –
Nathan Seiberg and
Edward Witten
-
Senftleben–Beenakker effect –
Hermann Senftleben and
Jan J. M. Beenakker
-
Sertoli cells –
Enrico Sertoli
-
Serre duality –
Jean-Pierre Serre
-
Seyfert galaxy –
Carl Keenan Seyfert
-
Shapiro effect –
Irwin Shapiro
-
Shimizu–Morioka attractor,
equations –
Tatsujiro Shimizu and
Nozomi Morioka
-
Shubnikov–de Haas effect –
Wander Johannes de Haas and
Lev Vasiljevich Shubnikov
-
Sieberg tsunami intensity scale –
August Heinrich Sieberg
-
Sieberg–Ambraseys tsunami intensity scale –
August Heinrich Sieberg and
Nicholas Ambraseys
-
Simmons–Smith reaction –
Howard Ensign Simmons, Jr.
-
Simpson's paradox (a.k.a.
Yule–Simpson effect) –
Edward H. Simpson (and
Udny Yule)
-
Simroth's organs –
Heinrich Rudolf Simroth
-
Smale's horseshoe –
Stephen Smale
-
Smale–Rössler theorem –
Stephen Smale and
Otto Rössler
-
Smith–Waterman algorithm –
Temple F. Smith and
Michael S. Waterman
-
Snell's law –
Willebrord van Roijen Snell
-
Soloviev tsunami intensity scale –
Sergey L. Soloviev
-
Sommerfeld–Kossel displacement law –
Arnold Sommerfeld and
Walther Kossel
-
Sørensen similarity index, similarity coefficient –
Thorvald Sørensen
-
Spörer's law,
Spörer Minimum –
Gustav Spörer
-
St. Elmo's fire –
Erasmus of Formiae
-
St. Robert's law (a.k.a.
Vieille's law) – Comte
Paul Ballada de Saint-Robert, a.k.a. Conte
Paolo Ballada di San Roberto (1815–1888)
-
Staebler–Wronski effect –
David L. Staebler and
Christopher R. Wronski
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Stark effect (a.k.a.
Stark–Lo Surdo effect) –
Johannes Stark (and
Antonino Lo Surdo)
-
Stark ladder (a.k.a.
Wannier–Stark ladder, q.v.) –
Johannes Stark and
Gregory Hugh Wannier
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Stark–Einstein law –
Johannes Stark and
Albert Einstein
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Stebbins–Whitford effect –
Joel Stebbins and
Albert Edward Whitford
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Stefan's constant,
law (a.k.a. Stefan–Boltzmann constant, law) –
Jožef Stefan (and
Ludwig Boltzmann)
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Stensen's duct –
Niels Stensen
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Stern–Levison parameter –
S. Alan Stern and
Harold F. Levison
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Stevens effect –
Joseph C. and
Stanley Smith Stevens
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Stevens's power law –
Stanley Smith Stevens
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Stewart's organs –
Charles Stewart
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Stewart–Tolman effect –
Thomas Dale Stewart and
Richard Chace Tolman
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Stigler's law of eponymy –
Stephen Stigler
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Stirling number –
James Stirling
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Stokes radius –
George Gabriel Stokes
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Stokes shift – George Gabriel Stokes
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Stolper–Samuelson theorem –
Paul Samuelson and
Wolfgang Stolper
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Strömgren age,
photometry,
sphere –
Bengt Georg Daniel Strömgren
-
Strömgren–Crawford photometry –
Bengt Georg Daniel Strömgren and
David L. Crawford
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Stroop effect –
John Ridley Stroop
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Strouhal number –
Vincenc Strouhal
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Stueckelberg action –
Ernst Carl Gerlach Stueckelberg
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Sturgeon's law –
Theodore Sturgeon
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Sturmian trajectories –
Charles François Sturm
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Suess effect –
Hans Eduard Suess
-
Suess solar cycle,
DeVries solar cycle,
Suess-DeVries solar cycle –
Hans Eduard Suess and
Hessel de Vries
-
Sunyaev–Zel'dovich effect –
Rashid Sunyaev and
Yakov Zel'dovich
-
Syracuse problem – see
Collatz conjecture, above
-
Szilard–Chalmers effect –
Leó Szilárd and
Thomas A. Chalmers
T
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Tait–Bryan angles (a.k.a.
Cardan angles, nautical angles) –
Peter Guthrie Tait and
George H. Bryan
-
Talbot effect –
William Henry Fox Talbot
-
Tanimoto coefficient, distance, measure, score, similarity –
Taffee T. Tanimoto
-
Taylor cone –
Geoffrey Ingram Taylor
-
Taylor-Couette flow –
Geoffrey Ingram Taylor and
Maurice Marie Alfred Couette
-
Teller–Ulam design –
Edward Teller and
Stanislaw Ulam
-
Thévenin's theorem –
Léon Charles Thévenin
-
Thirring effect – see
Lense–Thirring effect, above
-
Thomas precession –
Llewellyn Thomas
-
Thomas–Fermi approximation,
model –
Llewellyn Hilleth Thomas and
Enrico Fermi
-
Thomson cross-section,
effect –
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
-
Thomson structure (a.k.a.
Widmanstätten pattern) –
William (Guglielmo) Thomson (or
Count Alois von Beckh Widmanstätten)
-
Thorndike's laws (
of effect, readiness, and exercise) –
Edward L. Thorndike
-
Thorson's rule –
Gunnar Thorson
-
Thouless energy –
David J. Thouless
-
Thwaites conjecture – see
Collatz conjecture, above
-
Tiedemann's bodies –
Friedrich Tiedemann
-
Tiffeneau–Demjanov rearrangement –
Marc Tiffeneau and
Nikolai Demyanov
-
Tobin's q –
James Tobin
-
Tolman effects –
Richard Chace Tolman
-
Tolman–Oppenheimer–Volkoff limit –
Richard Chace Tolman,
J. Robert Oppenheimer, and
George Michael Volkoff
-
Tonks–Girardeau gas –
Lewi Tonks and
Marvin D. Girardeau
-
Townsend effect (a.k.a.
Ramsauer effect,
Ramsauer–Townsend effect),
ionization coefficient –
John Sealy Townsend
-
Troxler's effect/fading –
Ignaz Paul Vital Troxler
-
Tychonoff space –
Andrey Nikolayevich Tychonoff
-
Tyndall effect/scattering –
John Tyndall
U
V
W
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Wadati–Benioff zone (a.k.a.
Benioff zone) –
Kiyoo Wadati and
Hugo Benioff
-
Wahlund effect –
Sten Gösta William Wahlund
-
Wallace's line –
Alfred Russel Wallace
-
Walras's law –
Léon Walras
-
Wannier function,
orbital –
Gregory Wannier
-
Wasserman 9-Panel Plot –
Karlman Wasserman
-
Wannier–Stark ladder (a.k.a. Stark ladder) –
Gregory Wannier and
Johannes Stark
-
Warburg effect –
Otto Warburg
-
Waring's problem (a.k.a.
Hilbert–Waring theorem) –
Edward Waring (and
David Hilbert)
-
Weber–Fechner law (Weber's law, Fechner's law) –
Ernst Heinrich Weber and
Gustav Theodor Fechner
-
Weberian apparatus –
Ernst Heinrich Weber
-
Weierstrass–Casorati theorem –
Karl Theodor Wilhelm Weierstrass and
Felice Casorati
-
Weierstrass's elliptic functions,
factorization theorem,
function,
M-test,
preparation theorem –
Karl Theodor Wilhelm Weierstrass
-
Wien bridge –
Max Wien
-
Weissenberg effect –
Karl Weissenberg
-
Wess–Zumino–Witten model –
Julius Wess,
Bruno Zumino and
Edward Witten
-
Wess–Zumino model –
Julius Wess,
Bruno Zumino
-
Westermarck effect –
Edvard Westermarck
-
Weston cell –
Edward Weston
-
Wheatstone bridge –
Charles Wheatstone (improved and popularized it; the inventor was
Samuel Hunter Christie)
-
Whittaker function,
integral,
model –
Edmund Taylor Whittaker
-
Whittaker–Shannon interpolation formula –
Edmund Taylor Whittaker,
John Macnaghten Whittaker,
Claude Shannon
-
Widmanstätten pattern (a.k.a.
Thomson structure) –
Count Alois von Beckh Widmanstätten (or
William (Guglielmo) Thomson)
-
Widom line –
Benjamin Widom
-
Widrow–Hoff least mean squares filter –
Bernard Widrow and
Ted Hoff
-
Wiedemann–Franz law –
Gustav Wiedemann and
Rudolf Franz
-
Wiegand effect –
John R. Wiegand
-
Wien bridge (
Wien's bridge),
constant,
effect,
law –
Wilhelm Wien
-
Wiener filter,
process –
Norbert Wiener
-
Wigmore chart –
John Henry Wigmore
-
Wigner energy,
Wigner effect –
Eugene Wigner
-
Wigner–Seitz cell –
Eugene Wigner and
Frederick Seitz
-
Wilson cycle –
John Tuzo Wilson
-
Wilson effect –
Alexander Wilson
-
Wilson–Bappu effect –
Olin Chaddock Wilson and
Manali Kallat Vainu Bappu
-
Witten index –
Edward Witten
-
Wollaston prism –
William Hyde Wollaston
-
Woodward–Hoffmann rules –
Robert Burns Woodward and
Roald Hoffmann
-
Wolf effect –
Emil Wolf
-
Wulf bands –
Oliver R. Wulf
-
Wulff–Dötz reaction –
William Wulff and
Karl Heinz Dötz
Y
Z
See also
References