Scientific constants named after people
From The Book of THoTH (Leaves of Wisdom)
This is a list of physical and mathematical constants named after people.
- For other lists of eponyms (names derived from people) see eponym.
- For a list of eponyms sorted by name see List of eponyms.
- Avogadro's number – Amedeo Avogadro
- Bohr magneton – Niels Bohr
- Bohr radius – Niels Bohr
- Boltzmann constant – Ludwig Boltzmann
- Chandrasekhar limit – Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
- Dirac's constant – Paul Dirac
- Euler's constant – Leonhard Euler
- Faraday constant – Michael Faraday
- Hartree energy – Douglas Hartree
- Hubble's constant – Edwin Hubble
- Planck's constant – Max Planck
- Rydberg constant – Johannes Rydberg
- Stefan-Boltzmann constant – Jožef Stefan and Ludwig Boltzmann
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See also
- Physical constants
- List of science topics
- Lists of etymologies
- Lists of people
--Angel 13:05, 8 June 2006 (CDT)
