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- Faà di Bruno's formula – Francesco Faà di Bruno
- Faraday constant, effect, Faraday's law of induction, Faraday's law of electrolysis – Michael Faraday
- Farnsworth–Hirsch fusor – Philo T. Farnsworth and Robert L. Hirsch
- Favorskii reaction, rearrangement – Alexei Yevgrafovich Favorskii
- Fenton reaction – Henry John Horstman Fenton
- Fermat's principle – Pierre de Fermat
- Fermi energy, paradox, surface, Fermion – Enrico Fermi
- Fermi–Dirac statistics – Enrico Fermi and Paul Dirac
- Ferrers diagram (a.k.a. Young diagram, Ferrers graph) – Norman Macleod Ferrers
- Feshbach resonance – Herman Feshbach
- Feynman diagram – Richard Feynman
- Finkelstein reaction – Hans Finkelstein
- Fischer esterification, indole synthesis – Emil Hermann Fischer
- Fischer–Hafner reaction – Ernst Otto Fischer and Walter Hafner
- Fischer–Tropsch process – Franz Joseph Emil Fischer and Hans Tropsch
- Fischer–Hepp rearrangement – Otto Philipp Fischer and Eduard Hepp
- Fisher distribution – Ronald A. Fisher
- Fisher equation – Irving Fisher
- Fitts' law – Paul M. Fitts
- Flesch–Kincaid Readability Test – Rudolf F. Flesch and J. Peter Kincaid
- Fletcher–Munson effect and Fletcher–Munson curves – Harvey Fletcher and Wilden A. Munson
- Flynn effect – James R. Flynn
- Forbush effect – Scott Ellsworth Forbush
- Forer effect (a.k.a. Barnum effect) – Bertram R. Forer (and Phineas Taylor Barnum)
- Foucault effect (a.k.a. Foucault pendulum) – Jean Bernard Léon Foucault
- Fourier number – Joseph Fourier
- Fourier–Motzkin elimination – Joseph Fourier and Theodore Motzkin
- Franck–Condon factor, principle, transition – James Franck and Edward Uhler Condon
- Franssen effect – Nico Franssen
- Franz–Keldysh effect – Walter Franz and Leonid V. Keldysh
- Fraunhofer diffraction, lines – Joseph von Fraunhofer
- Fresnel zone – Augustin Fresnel
- Frey effect – Allan H. Frey
- Friedel oscillations – Jacques Friedel
- Friedel–Crafts reaction – Charles Friedel and James Mason Crafts
- Friedländer synthesis – Paul Friedländer
- Friedmann–Lemaître–Robertson–Walker metric (a.k.a. Friedmann-Robertson-Walker metric, Robertson-Walker metric) – Alexander Friedmann, Georges Lemaître, Howard Percy Robertson and Arthur Geoffrey Walker
- Fries and Photo-Fries rearrangement – Karl Theophil Fries
- Fritsch–Buttenberg–Wiechell rearrangement – Paul Ernst Moritz Fritsch, Wilhelm Paul Buttenberg, and Heinrich G. Wiechell
- Frobenius algebra, automorphism, method, norm, theorem – Ferdinand Georg Frobenius
- Froude number – William Froude
- Fry readability formula – Edward Fry
- Fujita scale (a.k.a. F-Scale, Fujita-Pearson scale) – Tetsuya Theodore Fujita (and Allen Pearson)
- Fujiwhara effect – Sakuhei Fujiwhara
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