Scientific Phenomena Named After People - L

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• Lagrangian mechanics, Lagrange points – Joseph Louis Lagrange
• Lamb shift – Willis Lamb
• Lambert's cosine law (a.k.a. Lambert's emission law) – Johann Heinrich Lambert
• Landau damping, pole – Lev Davidovich Landau
• Landau–Pomeranchuk–Migdal effect – Lev Davidovich Landau, Isaak Pomeranchuk, and Arkady Migdal
• Landau–Zener transition – Lev Davidovich Landau and Clarence Zener
• Landé g-factor – Alfred Landé
• Langmuir probe – Irving Langmuir
• Langmuir–Blodgett film – Irving Langmuir and Katharine B. Blodgett
• Laplace vector – see Laplace–Runge–Lenz vector, below
• Laplace–Runge–Lenz vector (a.k.a. LRL vector, Laplace vector, Runge–Lenz vector, Lenz vector) – Pierre-Simon de Laplace, Carl Runge and Wilhelm Lenz
• Larmor frequency, precession, radius – Sir Joseph Larmor
• Larsen effect – Søren Larsen (scientist)
• Laspeyres index – Ernst Louis Etienne Laspeyres
• Leavitt's law (a.k.a. Henrietta's law) – Henrietta Swan Leavitt
• Le Chatelier's principle – Henri Louis Le Chatelier
• Lee distance – C. Y. Lee
• Lee-Smith algorithm – William C. Y. Lee and H. L. Smith
• Leidenfrost effect, point – Johann Gottlob Leidenfrost
• Lenard effect – Philipp Eduard Anton von Lenard
• Lennard-Jones potential – John Lennard-Jones
• Lense–Thirring effect (a.k.a. Thirring effect) – Josef Lense and Hans Thirring
• Lenz vector – see Laplace–Runge–Lenz vector, above
• Lenz's law – Heinrich Friedrich Emil Lenz
• Levenshtein distance, automaton – Vladimir Levenshtein
• Levi-Civita symbol – Tullio Levi-Civita
• Lewis–Mogridge Position – David Lewis and Martin J. H. Mogridge
• Little–Parks effect – William A. Little and Roland D. Parks
• Littlewood–Offord problem – John E. Littlewood and A. Cyril Offord
• Locard's exchange principle – Edmond Locard
• Lombard effect – Étienne Lombard
• London force – Fritz London
• Lorentz force, transformation – Hendrik Antoon Lorentz
• Lorentz–Lorenz equation – Hendrik Antoon Lorentz and Ludvig Lorenz
• Lorenz attractor – Edward Norton Lorenz
• Lorenz curve – Max O. Lorenz
• Lorenz gauge condition – Ludvig Lorenz
• Lorenz–Mie scattering – see Mie scattering, below
• Loschmidt's paradox – Johann Loschmidt
• Lotka's law – Alfred J. Lotka
• Lotka–Volterra equation – Alfred J. Lotka and Vito Volterra
• Love waves – Augustus Edward Hough Love
• Lucas critique – Robert Lucas, Jr.
• Lyapunov's central limit theorem, equation, exponent, fractal, function, stability, test, time and tube – Aleksandr Mikhailovich Lyapunov
• Lyman line, series – Theodore Lyman