Scientific Phenomena Named After People - D

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• Dakin reaction, Dakin-West reaction – Henry Drysdale Dakin (and Randolph West)
• Dalton's law (of partial pressures) – John Dalton
• Damerau–Levenshtein distance – Frederick J. Damerau and Vladimir Levenshtein
• Danishefsky reaction – Samuel J. Danishefsky
• Darlington pair – Sidney Darlington
• Darcy's law – Henry Darcy
• Darwin point, Darwinism – Charles Darwin
• Darzens condensation – Auguste George Darzens
• Davies–Bouldin index (DBI) – David L. Davies and Donald W. Bouldin
• de Broglie wavelength – Louis de Broglie
• de Bruijn sequences – Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn
• de Haas–van Alphen effect – Wander Johannes de Haas and P. M. van Alphen
• de Haas–Shubnikov effect – see Shubnikov–de Haas effect, below
• Deborah number – the prophetess Deborah (Bible, Judges 5:5)
• Debye effect, length, model, shielding – Peter Joseph William Debye
• Debye–Falkenhagen effect – Peter Joseph William Debye and Hans Falkenhagen
• Richard Dedekind has many topics named after him; see biography article.
• Delbrück scattering – Max Ludwig Henning Delbrück
• Delépine reaction – Stéphane Marcel Delépine
• Dellinger effect (a.k.a. Mögel–Dellinger effect) – John Howard Dellinger (and Hans Mögel)
• Demjanov rearrangement – Nikolai Jakovlevich Demjanov
• Dess–Martin oxidation – Daniel Benjamin Dess and James Cullen Martin
• Dice's coefficient – Lee Raymond Dice
• Dieckmann condensation – Walter Dieckmann
• Diels–Alder reaction – Otto Paul Hermann Diels and Kurt Alder
• Diophantine equation – Diophantus of Alexandria
• Dirac comb, fermion, spinor, equation, delta function, measure – Paul Dirac
• Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet has dozens of formulas named after him.
• Divisia index – François Divisia
• Doebner–Miller reaction – Oscar Döbner (Doebner) and Wilhelm von Miller
• Dollo's law – Louis Dollo
• Donnan effect (a.k.a. Gibbs-Donnan effect) – see Gibbs-Donnan effect, below
• Doppler effect (a.k.a. Doppler-Fizeau effect), Doppler profile – Christian Doppler (and Hippolyte Fizeau)
• Dötz reaction – Karl Heinz Dötz
• Downs-Thomson paradox – Anthony Downs and J. M. Thomson
• 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))
• Droste effect – Dutch chocolate maker Droste
• Drude model – Paul Drude
• Duff's device – Tom Duff
• Duffing equation, map – Georg Duffing
• Duhamel's integral, and principle – Jean-Marie Constant Duhamel
• Dulong–Petit law – Pierre Louis Dulong and Alexis Thérèse Petit
• Dunitz angle – see Bürgi–Dunitz angle, above