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• Abderhalden–Fauser reaction – Emil Abderhalden
• Abney effect, Abney's law of additivity – William de Wiveleslie Abney
• Abrikosov lattice – Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov
• Accot–Zhai steering law – Johnny Accot and Shumin Zhai
• Aharonov–Bohm effect – Yakir Aharonov and David Bohm
• Alfvén wave – Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén
• Alhazen's problem – Alhazen
• Allais effect – Maurice Allais
• Allee effect – Warder Clyde Allee
• Amdahl's law, a.k.a. Amdahl's argument – Gene Amdahl
• Ampère's law – André-Marie Ampère
• Anderson–Higgs mechanism (a.k.a. Higgs mechanism) – Peter Higgs and Philip Warren Anderson
• Anderson–Darling test – Theodore W. Anderson, Jr. and Donald A. Darling
• Andreev reflection – Alexander F. Andreev
• Apgar score – Virginia Apgar
• Arago spot – Dominique François Jean Arago
• Michaelis–Arbuzov reaction – Aleksandr Erminingeldovich Arbuzov and August Karl Arnold Michaelis
• Archimedean spiral, Archimedes number – Archimedes
• Argand diagram – Jean Robert Argand
• Argunov–Cassegrain telescope – P. P. Argunov and Laurent Cassegrain
• Aristotle's lantern – Aristotle
• Armstrong oscillator – Edwin Armstrong
• Arndt–Eistert synthesis – Fritz Arndt and Bernd Eistert
• Arndt–Schulz law/principle/rule – Rudolf Arndt and Hugo Paul Friedrich Schulz
• Arrhenius equation – Svante August Arrhenius
• Ashkin–Teller model (a.k.a. Potts model) – Julius Ashkin and Edward Teller
• Asinger reaction – Friedrich Asinger
• Auger effect, electron – Pierre Victor Auger
• Autler–Townes effect – Stanley H. Autler and Charles H. Townes
• Auwers synthesis – Karl von Auwers
• Avogadro's law, number – Count Lorenzo Romano Amedeo Carlo Avogadro di Quaregna e Cerreto