List of Eponyms (A-K) - F

F

  • Johannes Fabry — Fabry disease
  • Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686–1736) — the Fahrenheit scale
  • Ernst Falkbeer — Falkbeer Countergambit
  • Gabriele Falloppio — Fallopian tube
  • Michael Faraday — farad — SI unit of capacitance, faraday — cgs unit of current Faraday constant, Faraday effect, Faraday's law of induction, Faraday's law of electrolysis
  • Guy Fawkes — guy
  • Enrico Fermi — fermions, Fermi energy, Fermilab, Fermi paradox, fermium — chemical element, Fermi-Dirac statistics. fermi (obsolete name for femtometre)
  • Enzo Ferrari — founder, Ferrari
  • George Washington Gale Ferris, Jr. — Ferris wheel
  • Richard Feynman — Feynman diagram
  • Fib of the Picts, one of the seven sons of Cruthin — Fife
  • Leonardo Fibonacci (1175–1250), Mathematician - Fibonacci Numbers
  • Bobby Fischer — Fischer Defense
  • Robert Fisk - Fisking
  • Matthew Flinders - Flinders Bay, Flinders Chase National Park, Flinders Island, Flinders Ranges, Flinders River, Flinders Street Station, Flinders University, Flinders, Victoria (Australia)
  • B.C. Forbes — Forbes magazine
  • Henry Ford — Ford Motor Company
  • Matthias N. Forney — Forney locomotive
  • William Forsyth (1737–1804) — Forsythia
  • Charles Fort — Forteana, Fortean Society, Fortean Times
  • Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria-Hungary - Franz Josef Land
  • Benjamin Franklin — Franklin stove, franklin — cgs unit of electric charge
  • William Fox — 20th Century Fox
  • Sigmund Freud — Freudian slip
  • Guido Fubini (1879–1943), Math/Measurements - Fubini's Theorem
  • Leonhart Fuchs (1501–1566) — Fuchsia
  • Tetsuya "Ted" Fujita (1920–1998) — Fujita Scale
  • Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983) — Fullerene

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