Scientific laws named after people
From The Book of THoTH (Leaves of Wisdom)
This is a list of scientific laws named after people (eponymous laws). For other lists of eponyms, see eponym.
| Law | Person(s) Named After |
|---|---|
| Amdahl's law | Gene Amdahl |
| Ampère's law | André-Marie Ampère |
| Avogadro's law | Amedeo Avogadro |
| Beer-Lambert law | August Beer, Johann Heinrich Lambert |
| Bernoulli's principle Bernoulli's equation | Daniel Bernoulli |
| Biot-Savart law | Jean Baptiste Biot and Felix Savart |
| Boyle's law | Robert Boyle |
| Bradford's law | Samuel C. Bradford |
| Buys-Ballot's law | C.H.D. Buys Ballot |
| Church-Turing thesis | Alonzo Church and Alan Turing |
| Coulomb's law | Charles Augustin de Coulomb |
| Law of Charles and Gay-Lussac (frequently called Charles's Law) | Jacques Charles and Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac |
| Dalton's law of partial pressure | John Dalton |
| De Morgan's law | Augustus De Morgan |
| Einstein's General Theory of Relativity | Albert Einstein |
| Faraday's law of induction Faraday's law of electrolysis | Michael Faraday |
| Fick's law of diffusion | Adolf Fick |
| Fitts' law | Paul Fitts |
| Fourier's law | Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier |
| Gauss' law | Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss |
| Gibbs free energy | Willard Gibbs |
| Gödel's incompleteness theorem | Kurt Gödel |
| Graham's law | Thomas Graham |
| Henry's law | William Henry |
| Hess's law | Germain Henri Hess |
| Hooke's law | Robert Hooke |
| Hubble's law | Edwin Hubble |
| Joule's law | James Joule |
| Kepler's laws of planetary motion | Johannes Kepler |
| Kirchhoff's laws | Gustav Kirchhoff |
| Le Chatelier's principle | Henri Louis le Chatelier |
| Metcalfe's law | Robert Metcalfe |
| Minkowski's theorem | Hermann Minkowski |
| Moore's law | Gordon Moore |
| Nash embedding theorem | John Forbes Nash |
| Newton's law of cooling Newton's law of gravitation | Isaac Newton |
| Noether's theorem | Emmy Noether |
| Occam's Razor | William of Ockham |
| Ohm's law | Georg Ohm |
| Pascal's theorem | Blaise Pascal |
| Pareto distribution Pareto efficiency Pareto index Pareto principle | Vilfredo Pareto |
| Pauli exclusion principle | Wolfgang Pauli |
| Peano axioms | Giuseppe Peano |
| Planck's law of black body radiation | Max Planck |
| Poiseuille's law | Jean Louis Marie Poiseuille |
| Raoult's law | Francois Marie Raoult |
| Riemann zeta function Riemann hypothesis Riemann integral Riemann lemma Riemannian manifold Riemann sphere Riemann theta function | Bernhard Riemann |
| Snell's law | Willebrord van Roijen Snell |
| Stefan-Boltzmann law | Jožef Stefan and Ludwig Boltzmann |
| Stokes' law | George Gabriel Stokes |
| Titius-Bode law | Johann Daniel Titius and Johann Elert Bode |
| Wien's law | Wilhelm Wien |
| Zipf's law | George Kingsley Zipf |
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See also
- Eponym
- List of eponymous laws - overlaps with this list but includes non-scientific laws such as Murphy's law
- Lists of etymologies
- Scientific phenomena named after people
- List of laws in science
- List of science topics
--Angel 13:06, 8 June 2006 (CDT)
