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  • Tait–Bryan angles (a.k.a. Cardan angles, nautical angles) – Peter Guthrie Tait and George H. Bryan
  • Talbot effect – William Henry Fox Talbot
  • Taylor cone – Geoffrey Ingram Taylor
  • Teller–Ulam design – Edward Teller and Stanisław Ulam
  • Tesla effect, oscillation (a.k.a. Vackár oscillation) – Nikola Tesla (and Jirí Vackár)
  • Thévenin's theorem – Léon Charles Thévenin
  • Thirring effect – see Lense-Thirring effect, above
  • Thomas precession – Llewellyn Thomas
  • Thomas–Fermi approximation, model – Llewellyn Hilleth Thomas and Enrico Fermi
  • Thomson cross-section, effect – William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
  • Thorndike's laws (of effect, readiness, and exercise) – Edward L. Thorndike
  • Thorson's rule – Gunnar Thorson
  • Thouless energy – David J. Thouless
  • Thwaites conjecture – see Collatz conjecture, above
  • Tiedemann's bodies – Friedrich Tiedemann
  • Tiffeneau–Demjanov rearrangement – Marc Tiffeneau and Nikolai Demyanov
  • Tobin's q – James Tobin
  • Tolman effects – Richard Chace Tolman
  • Tolman–Oppenheimer–Volkoff limit – Richard Chace Tolman, J. Robert Oppenheimer, and George Michael Volkoff
  • Tonks–Girardeau gas – Lewi Tonks and Marvin D. Girardeau
  • Townsend effect (a.k.a. Ramsauer effect, Ramsauer-Townsend effect), ionization coefficient – John Sealy Townsend
  • Tricomi's equation – Francesco Giacomo Tricomi
  • Troxler's effect/fading – Ignaz Paul Vital Troxler
  • Tsytovich effect – Vadim N. Tsytovich
  • Tsytovich–Razin effect (a.k.a. Tsytovich–Eidman–Razin effect) – see Razin effect, above
  • Tychonoff space – Andrey Nikolayevich Tychonoff
  • Tyndall effect/scattering – John Tyndall

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