Scientific Phenomena Named After People - V

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• Vackář oscillator (a.k.a. Tesla oscillator) – Jirí Vackář (and Nikola Tesla)
• Van Allen radiation belt – James Van Allen
• Van de Graaff generator – Dr. Robert Jemison Van de Graaff
• Van der Pol equation, oscillator – Balthasar van der Pol
• Van der Waals force – Johannes Diderik van der Waals
• Van Hove singularity – Léon Van Hove
• Van Stokum cylinder – W. J. van Stokum
• Vavilovian mimicry – Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov
• Veblen effect – Thorstein Veblen
• Veitch diagram – see Karnaugh map, above
• Venturi effect – Giovanni Battista Venturi
• Venn diagram – John Venn
• Voigt effect, notation, profile – Woldemar Voigt
• Voigt material – see Kelvin-Voigt material, above
• Von Klitzing constant – Klaus von Klitzing
• Von Neumann ordinal, von Neumann architecture – John von Neumann
• Von Restorff effect – Hedwig von Restorff