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Scientific laws named after people
This is a list of scientific laws named after people. For other lists of eponyms (names derived from people) see Lists of etymologies.
- Ampère's law – André-Marie Ampère
- Avogadro's law – Amedeo Avogadro
- Bernoulli's principle – Daniel Bernoulli
- Boyle's law – Robert Boyle
- Buys-Ballot's law – C.H.D. Buys Ballot
- Church-Turing-Deutsch Principle – Alonzo Church, Alan Turing, David Deutsch
- Coulomb's law – Charles Augustin de Coulomb
- Law of Charles and Gay-Lussac (frequently called simply Charles' Law) – Jacques Charles and Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac
- Faraday's law of induction – Michael Faraday
- Faraday's law of electrolysis – Michael Faraday
- Gauss' law – Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss
- Gibbs free energy – Josiah Willard Gibbs
- Gödel's incompleteness theorem – Kurt Gödel
- Graham's law – Thomas Graham
- Henry's law – William Henry
- Hooke's law – Robert Hooke
- Kirchhoff's laws – Gustav Kirchhoff
- Linus's law – Linus Torvalds
- Metcalfe's law – Robert Metcalfe
- Minkowski's theorem – Hermann Minkowski
- Moore's law – Gordon Moore
- Nash embedding theorem – John Forbes Nash
- Newton's law of cooling – Isaac Newton
- Newton's law of gravitation – Isaac Newton
- Newton's laws of motion – Isaac Newton
- Noether's theorem – Emmy Noether
- Occam's Razor – William of Ockham
- Ohm's law – Georg Ohm
- Pascal's theorem – Blaise Pascal
- Pareto distribution – Vilfredo Pareto
- Pareto efficiency – Vilfredo Pareto
- Pareto index – Vilfredo Pareto
- Pareto principle – Vilfredo Pareto
- Peano axioms – Giuseppe Peano
- Planck's law of black body radiation – Max Planck
- Poiseuille's law – Jean Louis Marie Poiseuille
- Stefan-Boltzmann law – Jožef Stefan and Ludwig Boltzmann
- Titius-Bode law – Johann Daniel Titius and Johann Elert Bode
- Wien's law – Wilhelm Wien
- Zipf's law – George Kingsley Zipf
See also
Last updated: 01-25-2005 15:27:16