Scientific Phenomena Named After People - K

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• K3 surface – Ernst Kummer, Erich Kähler, Kunihiko Kodaira
• Kähler differential, manifold, metric – Erich Kähler
• Kakutani's problem – see Collatz conjecture, above
• Kármán vortex street – Theodore von Kármán
• Karnaugh map (a.k.a. Karnaugh-Veitch map, Veitch diagram) – Maurice Karnaugh (and Edward W. Veitch)
• Karush–Kuhn–Tucker conditions (a.k.a. Kuhn–Tucker conditions) – William Karush, Harold W. Kuhn and Albert W. Tucker
• Kasha's rule – Michael Kasha
• Kater's pendulum – Captain Henry Kater
• Kaye effect – Alan Kaye
• Keeling curve – Charles David Keeling
• Kelvin–Joule effect – William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
• Kelvin–Voigt material, model – Woldemar Voigt and William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
• Kennelly–Heaviside layer – Arthur Edwin Kennelly and Oliver Heaviside
• Kepler's laws of planetary motion – Johannes Kepler
• Kerr effect – John Kerr
• Kirkendall effect – Ernest Kirkendall
• Kleene star (a.k.a. Kleene operator, Kleene closure) – Stephen Kleene
• Klein–Gordon equation – Oskar Klein and Walter Gordon
• Klein–Nishina effect – Oskar Klein and Yoshio Nishina
• Knudsen cell, number – Martin Hans Christian Knudsen
• Kodaira dimension, embedding theorem, vanishing theorem – Kunihiko Kodaira
• Koenigs–Knorr reaction – Wilhelm Koenigs and Edward Knorr
• Kohn effect – Walter Kohn
• Kohn–Sham equations – Walter Kohn and Lu Jeu Sham
• Kohonen network – Teuvo Kohonen
• Kolakoski sequence – William Kolakoski
• Kolbe electrolysis – Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe
• Kolbe–Schmitt reaction – Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe and Rudolf Schmitt
• Kondo effect – Jun Kondo
• Kornblum oxidation – Nathan Kornblum
• Kornblum–DeLaMare rearrangement – Nathan Kornblum and Harold E. DeLaMare
• Kossel effect – Walther Kossel
• Kosterlitz–Thouless transition – see Berezinsky–Kosterlitz–Thouless transition, above
• Kozai effect – Yoshihide Kozai
• Krebs cycle – Hans Adolf Krebs
• Kratzer potential – Adolf Kratzer
• Kronecker delta – Leopold Kronecker
• Kuhn–Tucker conditions – see Karush–Kuhn–Tucker conditions, above
• Kuiper Belt – Gerard Kuiper
• Kummer's function, Kummer surface – Ernst Kummer
• Kuramoto model – Yoshiki Kuramoto