This is a list of scientific laws named after people (eponymous laws). For other lists of eponyms, see eponym.
Law | Field | Person(s) Named After |
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Abel's theorem | Calculus | Niels Henrik Abel |
Amdahl's law | Computer science | Gene Amdahl |
Ampère's circuital law | Physics | André-Marie Ampère |
Archie's law | Geology | Gus Archie |
Archimedes' principle | Physics | Archimedes |
Arrhenius equation | Chemical kinetics | Svante Arrhenius |
Avogadro's law | Thermodynamics | Amedeo Avogadro |
Bell's theorem | Quantum mechanics | John Stewart Bell |
Beer–Lambert law | Optics | August Beer, Johann Heinrich Lambert |
Bernoulli's principle Bernoulli's equation |
Physical sciences | Daniel Bernoulli |
Biot–Savart law | Electromagnetics, fluid dynamics | Jean Baptiste Biot and Félix Savart |
Birch's law | Geophysics | Francis Birch |
Bogoliubov–Born–Green–Kirkwood–Yvon hierarchy | Physics | Nikolay Bogoliubov, Max Born, Herbert Green, John Kirkwood, and J. Yvon |
Bogoliubov transformation | Quantum mechanics | Nikolay Bogoliubov |
Boltzmann equation | Thermodynamics | Ludwig Boltzmann |
Born's law | Quantum mechanics | Max Born |
Boyle's law | Thermodynamics | Robert Boyle |
Bradford's law | Computer science | Samuel C. Bradford |
Buys Ballot's law | Meteorology | C.H.D. Buys Ballot |
Byerlee's law | Geophysics | James Byerlee |
Carnot's theorem | Thermodynamics | Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot |
Cauchy's integral formula Cauchy–Riemann equations |
Complex analysis | Augustin Louis Cauchy Augustin Louis Cauchy and Bernhard Riemann |
Cayley–Hamilton theorem | Linear algebra | Arthur Cayley and William Hamilton |
Charles's law | Thermodynamics | Jacques Charles |
Church–Turing thesis | Computer science | Alonzo Church and Alan Turing |
Coulomb's law | Physics | Charles Augustin de Coulomb |
Law of Charles and Gay-Lussac (frequently called Charles's law) | Thermodynamics | Jacques Charles and Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac |
Clifford's theorem Clifford's circle theorems |
Algebraic geometry, Geometry | William Kingdon Clifford |
Curie's law | Physics | Pierre Curie |
Curie–Weiss law | Physics | Pierre Curie and Pierre-Ernest Weiss |
D'Alembert's paradox D'Alembert's principle |
Fluid dynamics, Physics | Jean le Rond d'Alembert |
Dalton's law of partial pressure | Thermodynamics | John Dalton |
Darcy's law | Fluid mechanics | Henry Darcy |
De Bruijn–Erdős theorem | Mathematics | Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn and Paul Erdős |
De Morgan's law | Logic | Augustus De Morgan |
Dermott's law | Celestial mechanics | Stanley Dermott |
Descartes' theorem | Geometry | René Descartes |
Dirac equation Dirac delta function Dirac comb Dirac spinor Dirac operator |
Mathematics, Physics | Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac |
Drake equation | Cosmology | Frank Drake |
Doppler effect | Physics | Christian Doppler |
Ehrenfest's theorem | Quantum mechanics | Paul Ehrenfest |
Einstein's general theory of relativity Einstein's special theory of relativity |
Physics | Albert Einstein |
Erdős–Anning theorem |
Mathematics | Paul Erdős and Norman H. Anning |
Erdős–Beck theorem | Mathematics | Paul Erdős and József Beck |
Erdős–Gallai theorem | Mathematics | Paul Erdős and Tibor Gallai |
Erdős–Kac theorem | Mathematics | Paul Erdős and Mark Kac |
Erdős–Ko–Rado theorem | Mathematics | Paul Erdős, Ke Zhao, and Richard Rado |
Erdős–Nagy theorem | Mathematics | Paul Erdős and Béla Szőkefalvi-Nagy |
Erdős–Rado theorem | Mathematics | Paul Erdős and Richard Rado |
Erdős–Stone theorem | Mathematics | Paul Erdős and Arthur Harold Stone |
Erdős–Szekeres theorem | Mathematics | Paul Erdős and George Szekeres |
Erdős–Szemerédi theorem | Mathematics | Paul Erdős and Endre Szemerédi |
Euclid's theorem | Number theory | Euclid |
Euler's theorem |
Number theory | Leonhard Euler |
Faraday's law of induction Faraday's law of electrolysis |
Electromagnetism Chemistry |
Michael Faraday |
Faxén's law | Fluid dynamics | Hilding Faxén |
Fermat's principle Fermat's last theorem Fermat's little theorem |
Optics Number theory Number theory |
Pierre de Fermat |
Fermi paradox Fermi's golden rule Fermi acceleration Fermi hole Fermionic field Fermi level |
Cosmology, Physics | Enrico Fermi |
Fick's law of diffusion | Thermodynamics | Adolf Fick |
Fitts's law | Ergonomics | Paul Fitts |
Fourier's law | Thermodynamics | Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier |
Gauss's law Gauss's law for magnetism Gauss's principle of least constraint Gauss's digamma theorem Gauss's hypergeometric theorem Gaussian function |
Mathematics, Physics | Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss |
Gibbs–Helmholtz equation | Thermodynamics | Josiah Willard Gibbs, Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz |
Gödel's incompleteness theorems | Mathematics | Kurt Gödel |
Graham's law | Thermodynamics | Thomas Graham |
Grimm's law | Linguistics | Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm |
Heisenberg's uncertainty principle | Theoretical physics | Werner Heisenberg |
Hellmann–Feynman theorem | Physics | Hans Hellmann, Richard Feynman |
Henry's law | Thermodynamics | William Henry |
Hertz observations | Electromagnetism | Heinrich Hertz |
Hess's law | Thermodynamics | Germain Henri Hess |
Hilbert's basis theorem Hilbert's axioms Hilbert function Hilbert's irreducibility theorem Hilbert's syzygy theorem Hilbert's Theorem 90 Hilbert's theorem |
Mathematics | David Hilbert |
Hohenberg–Kohn theorem | Quantum mechanics | Pierre Hohenberg and Walter Kohn |
Helmholtz's theorems Helmholtz theorem Helmholtz free energy Helmholtz decomposition Helmholtz equation Helmholtz resonance |
Thermodynamics Physics |
Hermann von Helmholtz |
Hooke's law | Physics | Robert Hooke |
Hopkinson's law | Electromagnetism | John Hopkinson |
Hubble's law | Cosmology | Edwin Hubble |
Hund's rules | Atomic physics | Friedrich Hund |
Huygens–Fresnel principle | Optics | Christiaan Huygens and Augustin-Jean Fresnel |
Joule's laws | Physics | James Joule |
Jurin's law | Physics | James Jurin |
Kasha's rule | Photochemistry | Michael Kasha |
Kepler's laws of planetary motion | Astrophysics | Johannes Kepler |
Kirchhoff's laws | Electronics, thermodynamics | Gustav Kirchhoff |
Kopp's law | Thermodynamics | Hermann Franz Moritz Kopp |
Lagrangian point Lagrange reversion theorem Lagrange polynomial Lagrange's four-square theorem Lagrange's theorem Lagrange's theorem (group theory) Lagrange invariant Lagrange multiplier |
Mathematics, Astrophysics | Joseph Louis Lagrange |
Lamm equation | Chemistry, Biophysics | Ole Lamm |
Langmuir equation | Surface Chemistry | Irving Langmuir |
Laplace transform Laplace's equation Laplace operator Laplace distribution Laplace invariant Laplace expansion Laplace principle Laplace limit |
Mathematics Physics Probability Theory Statistical mechanics |
Pierre-Simon Laplace |
Le Chatelier's principle | Chemistry | Henri Louis le Chatelier |
Leibniz's law | Ontology | Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz |
Lenz's law | Physics | Heinrich Lenz |
Leonard–Merritt mass estimator | Astrophysics | Peter Leonard, David Merritt |
l'Hôpital's rule | Mathematics | Guillaume de l'Hôpital |
Mach principle Mach reflection |
Physics | Ernst Mach |
Marconi's law | Scientific | Guglielmo Marconi |
Markovnikov's rule | Organic Chemistry | Vladimir Markovnikov |
Maupertuis' principle | Mathematics | Pierre Louis Maupertuis |
Maxwell's equations Maxwell relations |
Electrodynamics Thermodynamics |
James Clerk Maxwell |
Metcalfe's law | Network theory | Robert Metcalfe |
Mikheyev–Smirnov–Wolfenstein effect | Particle Physics | Stanislav Mikheyev, Alexei Smirnov, and Lincoln Wolfenstein |
Milner–Rado paradox | Mathematical logic | Eric Charles Milner and Richard Rado |
Minkowski's theorem | Number theory | Hermann Minkowski |
Moore's law | Computing | Gordon Moore |
Nash embedding theorem Nash equilibrium |
Topology Game Theory |
John Forbes Nash |
Nernst equation | Electrochemistry | Walther Nernst |
Newton's law of cooling Newton's law of universal gravitation Newton's laws of motion |
Thermodynamics Astrophysics Mechanics |
Isaac Newton |
Noether's theorem | Theoretical physics | Emmy Noether |
Nurgaliev's law | Demography | Nurgaliev's law |
Nyquist–Shannon sampling theorem | Information theory | Harry Nyquist, Claude Elwood Shannon |
Occam's razor | Philosophy of science | William of Ockham |
Ohm's law | Electronics | Georg Ohm |
Osipkov–Merritt model | Astrophysics | Leonid Osipkov, David Merritt |
Ostwald dilution law | Physical chemistry | Wilhelm Ostwald |
Paley–Wiener theorem | Mathematics | Raymond Paley and Norbert Wiener |
Pareto distribution Pareto efficiency Pareto index Pareto principle |
Economics | Vilfredo Pareto |
Pascal's law Pascal's theorem |
Physics Geometry |
Blaise Pascal |
Pauli exclusion principle | Quantum mechanics | Wolfgang Pauli |
Peano axioms | Foundational mathematics | Giuseppe Peano |
Planck's law | Electromagnetism | Max Planck |
Poincaré–Bendixson theorem | Mathematics | Henri Poincaré and Ivar Otto Bendixson |
Poincaré–Birkhoff–Witt theorem | Mathematics | Henri Poincaré, George David Birkhoff, and Ernst Witt |
Poincaré–Hopf theorem | Mathematics | Henri Poincaré and Heinz Hopf |
Poincaré recurrence theorem Poincaré conjecture Poincaré lemma |
Mathematics | Henri Poincaré |
Poiseuille's law | Fluidics | Jean Louis Marie Poiseuille |
Poisson distribution Poisson's equation |
Statistics Calculus |
Siméon Denis Poisson |
Ptolemy's theorem | Geometry | Ptolemy |
Pythagorean theorem | Geometry | Pythagoras |
Raman scattering | Physics | Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman |
Rado's theorem | Discrete mathematics | Richard Rado |
Ramanujan–Nagell equation |
Mathematics | Srinivasa Ramanujan and Trygve Nagell |
Raoult's law | Physical chemistry | Francois Marie Raoult |
Riemann zeta function Riemann hypothesis Riemann integral Riemann lemma Riemannian manifold Riemann sphere Riemann theta function |
Number theory, analysis, geometry | Bernhard Riemann |
Rolle's theorem | Differential calculus | Michel Rolle |
Saha ionization equation | Plasma physics | Meghnad Saha |
Schrödinger equation | Physics | Erwin Schrödinger |
Sérsic's law | Astrophysics | J. L. Sérsic |
Snell's law | Optics | Willebrord van Roijen Snell |
Sokolov–Ternov effect | Particle Physics | Arsenij Sokolov and Igor Ternov |
Sommerfeld–Kossel displacement law | Spectroscopy | Arnold Sommerfeld and Walther Kossel |
Stefan–Boltzmann law | Thermodynamics | Jožef Stefan and Ludwig Boltzmann |
Stokes' law | Fluid mechanics | George Gabriel Stokes |
Stoletov's law | Photoelectric effect | Aleksandr Stoletov |
Tarski's undefinability theorem Tarski's axioms |
Mathematical logic, Geometry | Alfred Tarski |
Thales' theorem | Geometry | Thales |
Titius–Bode law | Astrophysics | Johann Daniel Titius and Johann Elert Bode |
Torricelli's law | Physics | Evangelista Torricelli |
Umov effect | Physics | Nikolay Umov |
Van der Waals equation | Chemistry | Johannes Diderik van der Waals |
Vlasov equation | Plasma physics | Anatoly Vlasov |
Von Neumann bicommutant theorem Von Neumann entropy von Neumann paradox Von Neumann ergodic theorem Von Neumann universe Von Neumann neighborhood Von Neumann's trace inequality |
Mathematics, Quantum mechanics | John von Neumann |
Weinberg–Witten theorem | Quantum Gravity | Steven Weinberg and Edward Witten |
Weyl character formula |
Mathematics | Hermann Weyl |
Wien's law | Physics | Wilhelm Wien |
Wiener–Khinchin theorem | Mathematics | Norbert Wiener and Aleksandr Khinchin |
Young–Laplace equation | Fluid dynamics | Thomas Young and Pierre-Simon Laplace |
Zipf's law | Linguistics | George Kingsley Zipf |
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