Scientific Phenomena Named After People - W

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• Wadati–Benioff zone (a.k.a. Benioff zone) – Kiyoo Wadati and Hugo Benioff
• Wahlund effect – Sten Gösta William Wahlund
• Wallace's line – Alfred Russel Wallace
• Walras' law – Léon Walras
• Wannier function, orbital – Gregory Wannier
• Wannier–Stark ladder (a.k.a. Stark ladder) – Gregory Wannier and Johannes Stark
• Warburg effect – Otto Warburg
• Waring's problem (a.k.a. Hilbert–Waring theorem) – Edward Waring (and David Hilbert)
• Weber–Fechner law (Weber's law, Fechner's law) – Ernst Heinrich Weber and Gustav Theodor Fechner
• Weberian apparatus – Ernst Heinrich Weber
• Weierstrass–Casorati theorem – Karl Theodor Wilhelm Weierstrass and Felice Casorati
• Weierstrass's elliptic functions, factorization theorem, function, M-test, preparation theorem – Karl Theodor Wilhelm Weierstrass
• Weissenberg effect – Karl Weissenberg
• Wess–Zumino–Witten model – Julius Wess, Bruno Zumino and Edward Witten
• Wess–Zumino model – Julius Wess, Bruno Zumino
• Weston cell – Edward Weston
• Wheatstone bridge – Sir Charles Wheatstone (improved and popularized it; the inventor was Samuel Hunter Christie)
• Whittaker function, Whittaker integral, Whittaker model – Edmund Taylor Whittaker
• Whittaker–Shannon interpolation formula – Edmund Taylor Whittaker, John Macnaghten Whittaker, Claude Shannon
• Widrow–Hoff rule – Bernard Widrow and Ted Hoff
• Wiedemann–Franz law – Gustav Wiedemann and Rudolf Franz
• Wiegand effect – John R. Wiegand
• Wien bridge (Wien's bridge), constant, effect, law – Wilhelm Wien
• Wiener filter, process – Norbert Wiener
• Wigmore chart – John Henry Wigmore
• Wigner energy, Wigner effect – Eugene Wigner
• Wigner–Seitz cell – Eugene Wigner and Frederick Seitz
• Willshaw network – David J. Willshaw
• Wilson cycle – John Tuzo Wilson
• Wilson effect (a.k.a. Schülen-–Wilson effect) – Alexander Wilson (and ? Schülen)
• Wilson–Bappu effect – Olin Chaddock Wilson and Manali Kallat Vainu Bappu
• Witten index – Edward Witten
• Wollaston prism – William Hyde Wollaston
• Woodward–Hoffmann rules – Robert Burns Woodward and Roald Hoffmann
• Woodward effect – James F. Woodward
• Wolf effect – Emil Wolf
• Wulf bands – Oliver R. Wulf