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Purkinje, Johannes Evangelista
Purkinje, Johannes Evangelista
Purkinje, Johannes Evangelista, 1787-1869, Czech physiologist. While professor (1823-50) at the Univ. of Breslau he pioneered in establishing laboratory training in German universities. From 1850 he was professor at Charles Univ., Prague, and was active in the Czech nationalist movement. He improved microscope technique and made numerous contributions in the fields of histology and embryology. He discovered the apertures of the sweat glands and the large ramified nerve cells of the cerebellum now known by his name. In his research in ophthalmology he worked on the functions of the eye, studied subjective visual figures and recurrent images, and described important phenomena concerning the eye's sensitivity to color.
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This is a list of scientific phenomena and concepts named after people (eponymous phenomena). For other lists of eponyms, see eponym.
A
- Abderhalden ninhydrin reaction — Emil Abderhalden
- Abney effect, Abney's law of additivity — William de Wiveleslie Abney
- Abrikosov lattice — Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov
- Aharonov-Bohm effect — Yakir Aharonov and David Bohm
- Albert effect — ? Albert
- Alfvén number (a.k.a. Kármán number, magnetic Mach number) — Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén
- Alfvén speed, wave — Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén
- Allais effect — Maurice Allais
- Allee effect — Warder Clyde Allee
- Allinger's force field — Norman Allinger
- Ampère's law — André-Marie Ampère
- Anderson-Higgs mechanism (a.k.a. Higgs mechanism) — Peter Higgs and Philip Warren Anderson
- Anderson-Darling test — Theodore W. Anderson, Jr. and Donald A. Darling
- Andreev reflection — Alexander F. Andreev
- Andy's rule — André R. Wyss
- Apgar score — Virginia Apgar
- Arago phenomenon (a.k.a. Rotatory magnetism), spot — Dominique François Jean Arago
- Arbuzov-Michaelis reaction — Aleksandr Erminingeldovich Arbuzov and August Karl Arnold Michaelis
- Archimedean spiral, Archimedes number — Archimedes
- Argand diagram — Jean Robert Argand
- Argunov-Cassegrain telescope — P. P. Argunov and Laurent Cassegrain
- Aristotle's lantern — Aristotle
- Armstrong oscillator — Edwin Armstrong
- Arndt-Eistert synthesis — Fritz Arndt and Bernd Eistert
- Arndt-Schulz law/principle/rule — Rudolf Arndt and Hugo Paul Friedrich Schulz
- Arrhenius equation, number — Svante August Arrhenius
- Ashkin-Teller model (a.k.a. Potts model) — Julius Ashkin and Edward Teller
- Asinger reaction — Friedrich Asinger
- Auger effect, electron — Pierre Victor Auger
- Autler-Townes effect (a.k.a. Dynamical Stark splitting) — Stanley H. Autler and Charles H. Townes
- Auwers synthesis — Karl von Auwers
- Avogadro's law, number — Count Lorenzo Romano Amedeo Carlo Avogadro di Quaregna e Cerreto
B
- Baeyer-Drewson indigo synthesis — Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf von Baeyer and Viggo Drewsen
- Baeyer-Villiger oxidation and Baeyer-Villiger rearrangement — Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf von Baeyer and Victor Villiger
- Bagnold number — Ralph Alger Bagnold
- Baily's beads — Francis Baily
- Baker-Nathan effect — John William Baker and Wilfred S. Nathan
- Bakerian mimicry — Herbert G. Baker
- Balmer line, series — Johann Jakob Balmer
- Bamberger rearrangement — Eugen Bamberger
- Bamford-Stevens reaction — William Randall Bamford and Thomas Stevens Stevens
- Barbier-Wieland reaction — François Antoine Phillipe Barbier and Heinrich Otto Wieland
- Bardeen vacuum — James Maxwell Bardeen
- Barkhausen effect — Heinrich Barkhausen
- Barnett effect — Samuel Jackson Barnett
- Barnett-Monstein effect – Samuel Jackson Barnett and Christian Monstein
- Barnum effect (a.k.a. Forer effect) — Phineas Taylor Barnum (and Bertram R. Forer)
- Barro-Ricardo equivalence — Robert Barro and David Ricardo
- Bartlett-Condon-Schneider reaction — Paul Doughty Bartlett, Francis Edward Condon, and Abraham Schneider
- Barton reaction — Sir Derek Harold Richard Barton
- Barton-McCombie reaction — Sir Derek Harold Richard Barton and Stuart W. McCombie
- Baskerville effect — the fictional Charles Baskerville of the novel The Hound of the Baskervilles
- Batesian mimicry — Henry Walter Bates
- Båth's law — Markus Båth
- Bayes' theorem — Rev. Thomas Bayes
- Baylis-Hillman reaction — Anthony B. Baylis and Melville E. D. Hillman
- Bayliss effect — William M. Bayliss
- BCS superconduction theory — John Bardeen, Leon Cooper, and Robert Schrieffer
- Beaufort scale (Beaufort wind force scale) — Sir Francis Beaufort
- Beckmann rearrangement — Ernst Otto Beckmann
- Becquerel effect — Henri Becquerel
- Beer's law (a.k.a. Beer-Lambert law or Beer-Lambert-Bouguer law) — August Beer (and Johann Heinrich Lambert and Pierre Bouguer)
- Beilstein's test — Friedrich Konrad Beilstein
- Bejan number — Adrian Bejan
- Bekenstein bound — Jacob Bekenstein
- Bell's inequality — John Stewart Bell
- Bell number — Eric Temple Bell
- Belousov-Zhabotinskii reaction — Boris Pavlovich Belousov and Anatol Markovich Zhabotinskii
- Bénard cell — Henri Bénard
- Bénard-Marangoni cell/convection (a.k.a. Marangoni convection) — Henri Bénard and Carlo Marangoni
- Benedicks effect — Manson Benedicks
- Benedict's test — Stanley Rossiter Benedict
- Benford's law — Frank Albert Benford, Jr.
- Benioff zone — see Wadati-Benioff zone, below
- Bennett pinch — Willard Harrison Bennett
- Benkeser reduction — Robert Anthony Benkeser
- Berezinsky–Kosterlitz–Thouless transition — Veniamin L. Berezinsky, John M. Kosterlitz, and David J. Thouless
- Bergman cyclization — Robert George Bergman
- Bergmann's rule — Christian Bergmann
- Bergmann-Zervas carbobenzoxy method — Max Bergmann and Leonidas Zervas
- Bernoulli effect, Bernoulli's equation, principle — Daniel Bernoulli
- Berry's phase — Michael V. Berry
- Betz limit — Albert Betz
- Bezold-Brücke effect (a.k.a. von Bezold spreading effect) — Johann Friedrich Wilhelm von Bezold and Ernst Wilhelm von Brücke
- Biefeld-Brown effect — Paul Alfred Biefeld and Thomas Townsend Brown
- Biginelli reaction — Pietro Biginelli
- Bingham number — Eugene C. Bingham
- Biot number — Jean-Baptiste Biot
- Biot-Savart law — Jean-Baptiste Biot and Félix Savart
- Birch reduction — Arthur John Birch
- Birge-Hopfield bands — see Lyman-Birge-Hopfield bands, below
- Birkeland currents — Kristian Birkeland
- Birman-Williams theorem — Joan Sylvia Lyttle Birman and Robert F. Williams
- Bischler-Napieralski synthesis — August Bischler and Bernard Napieralski
- Black's law (a. k. a. Black's equation) for electromigration — James R. Black (d. 2004) of Motorola
- Blake number — Frank C. Blake (1892-1926) US chemist
- Blazhko effect — Sergei Blazhko
- Bloch wave — Felix Bloch
- Bodenstein number — probably Max Bodenstein (1871 — 1942)
- Bohm sheath criterion — David Bohm
- Bohr effect — Christian Bohr
- Bohr magneton, model, radius — Neils Bohr
- Boltzmann constant — Ludwig Boltzmann
- Boltzmann number (a.k.a. Thring number) — Ludwig Boltzmann (or ? Thring)
- Bond number — ? Bond
- Borch reduction — Richard Frederic Borch
- Borel algebra, measure, set, space, summation, Borel's lemma, paradox — Félix Édouard Justin Émile Borel
- Borel-Cantelli lemma — Félix Édouard Justin Émile Borel and Francesco Paolo Cantelli
- Borel-Carathéodory theorem — Félix Édouard Justin Émile Borel and Constantin Carathéodory
- Bormuth index — John R. Bormuth
- Born-Haber cycle — Max Born and Fritz Haber
- Born-Oppenheimer approximation — Max Born and Robert Oppenheimer
- Borodin-Hunsdiecker reaction — Aleksandr Porphyrevich Borodin, Hienz Hunsdiecker, and Clare Hunsdiecker (née Dieckmann)
- Borrmann effect (a.k.a. Borrmann-Campbell effect) — Gerhard Borrman (and H. N. Campbell)
- Bortle Dark-Sky Scale — John E. Bortle
- Bose-Einstein condensate, effect, statistics — Satyendra Nath Bose and Albert Einstein
- Boson — Satyendra Nath Bose
- Boussinesq number — Joseph Boussinesq
- Bouveault-Blanc reaction — Louis Bouveault and Gustave Louis Blanc
- Bouveault-Locquin synthesis — Louis Bouveault and René Locquin
- Boyle's law (a.k.a. Boyle-Mariotte law) — Robert Boyle (and Edme Mariotte)
- Brackett line, series — Frederick Sumner Brackett
- Bragg angle, Bragg's law, Bragg plane — William Henry Bragg and his son William Lawrence Bragg
- Bragg diffraction — William Lawrence Bragg
- Brans-Dicke theory — Carl H. Brans and Robert H. Dicke
- Braun-Blanquet method — Josias Braun-Blanquet
- Bravais lattice — Auguste Bravais
- Bravais-Miller indices (a.k.a. Miller-Bravais indices) — Auguste Bravais and William Hallowes Miller
- Brayton cycle — George B. Brayton
- Bredt's rule - Julius Bredt
- Brewster's angle, law — David Brewster
- Brillouin-Mandel'shtam effect — see Mandel'shtam-Brillouin scattering, below
- Brillouin zone — Léon Brillouin
- Brinkman layer, number — Hendrik C. Brinkman
- Brinkman-Forchheimer equations — Hendrik C. Brinkman and Philipp Forchheimer
- Brook rearrangement — Adrian Gibbs Brook
- Brownian motion — Robert Brown
- Brownell-Katz number — Lloyd E. Brownell and Donald L. Katz
- Bucherer reaction — Hans Theodor Bucherer
- Büchi automata — Julius Richard Büchi
- Buckingham theorem (a.k.a. Vaschy-Buckingham theorem) — Edgar Buckingham (and Aimé Vaschy)
- Bulygen number — ? Bulygen
- Burali-Forti paradox — Cesare Burali-Forti
- Butcher-Oemler effect — Harvey Raymond Butcher and Augustus Oemler, Jr.
C
- Cabannes-Daure effect — Jean Cabannes and Pierre Daure
- Cadiot-Chodkiewicz coupling, reaction — Paul Cadiot and Wladyslav Chodkiewicz
- Callendar Effect — Guy Stewart Callendar
- Callier effect — André Callier
- Callippic cycle — Callippus of Cyzicus
- Calvin cycle (a.k.a. Calvin-Benson cycle) — Melvin Calvin (and Andy Benson)
- Cannizzaro reaction — Stanislao Cannizzaro
- Cardan angles (a.k.a. Tait-Bryan angles) — Gerolamo Cardano
- Carnot cycle, number — Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot
- Carpenter effect (a.k.a. Ideomotor effect) — William Benjamin Carpenter
- Cartan–Kähler theorem — Élie Cartan, Erich Kähler
- Casimir effect — Hendrik Casimir
- Catalan's conjecture (a.k.a. Mihăilescu's theorem), Catalan numbers — Eugène Charles Catalan
- Cauchy number (a.k.a. Hooke number) — Augustin-Louis Cauchy
- Cauchy-Kovalevskaya theorem — Augustin-Louis Cauchy, Sofia Kovalevskaya
- Cauer filter — Wilhelm Cauer
- Chandler wobble — Seth Carlo Chandler
- Chandrasekhar effect, limit, number — Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
- Chapman rearrangement — Arthur William Chapman
- Chappuis bands (sometimes misspelled "Chappius") — J. Chappuis
- Chebyshev distance, equation, filter, linkage, polynomials — Pafnuty Lvovich Chebyshev
- Chebyshev's inequality (a.k.a. Bienaymé-Chebyshev inequality) — Pafnuty Lvovich Chebyshev (and Irénée-Jules Bienaymé)
- Cherenkov radiation (a.k.a. Cherenkov-Vavilov radiation) — Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov (and Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov)
- Chichibabin pyridine amination reaction — Alexei Yevgenievich Chichibabin
- Christiansen cavity, effect, filter — Christian Christiansen
- Christoffel symbol — Elwin Bruno Christoffel
- Christofilos effect — Nicholas Christofilos
- Chugaev elimination/reaction, reagent — Lev Aleksandrovich Chugaev
- Ciamician photodisproportionation, synthesis — Giacomo Luigi Ciamician
- Claisen condensation, rearrangement — Rainer Ludwig Claisen
- Claisen-Ireland rearrangement — Rainer Ludwig Claisen and Robert Ellsworth Ireland
- Claisen-Schmidt reaction — Rainer Ludwig Claisen and J. Gustav Schmidt
- Clapp oscillator — James K. Clapp
- Clarke orbit — Arthur C. Clarke
- Clausius number — Rudolf Julius Emanuel Clausius
- Clayden effect — Arthur W. Clayden
- Clemmensen reduction — Erik Christian Clemmensen
- Clifton effect — Rachel K. Clifton
- Coanda effect — Henri Coanda
- Coase theorem — Ronald Coase
- Coke-Rothkopf index — Ester U. Coke and Ernst Z. Rothkopf
- Colburn-Chilton analogy (a.k.a. Colburn analogy) — Allan Philip Colburn and Thomas H. Chilton
- Coleman-Liau index — Meri Coleman and T. L. Liau
- Coleman-Mandula theorem — Sidney Coleman and Jeffrey Mandula
- Colpitts oscillator — Edwin H. Colpitts
- Compton effect, scattering, wavelength — Arthur Compton
- Coolidge effect — from a joke attributed to John Calvin Coolidge, Jr.
- Cooper pair — Leon Cooper
- Cope elimination, rearrangement — Arthur Clay Cope
- Corey-Fuchs reaction — Elias James Corey and Philip L. Fuchs
- Corey-Kim oxidation — Elias James Corey and Choung Un Kim
- Corey-Winter olefin synthesis — Elias James Corey and Roland Arthur Edwin Winter
- Coriolis effect — Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis
- Cornforth rearrangement — Sir John Warcup Cornforth
- Cotton effect — Aimé Auguste Cotton
- Cotton-Mouton effect — Aimé Auguste Cotton and H. Mouton
- Coulomb constant, law — Charles Augustin de Coulomb
- Coulter counter, principle — Wallace Henry Coulter
- Cowling number — probably Thomas George Cowling
- Coxeter-Dynkin diagram — Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter and Eugene Borisovich Dynkin
- Crabtree effect — Herbert Grace Crabtree
- Crane-Monstein effect – Oliver Crane and Christian Monstein
- Criegee reaction, rearrangement — Rudolf Criegee
- Curie point — Pierre Curie
- Curry's paradox — Haskell Curry
- Curtin-Hammett principle — David Yarrow Curtin and Louis Plack Hammett
- Curtius rearrangement — Theodor Curtius
- Cuvierian tubules, Cuvier's organ — Georges Cuvier
D
- Dakin reaction, Dakin-West reaction - Henry Drysdale Dakin (and Randolph West)
- Dale-Chall index — Edgar Dale and Jeanne S. Chall
- Dalton's law (of partial pressures) — John Dalton
- Danishefsky reaction — Samuel J. Danishefsky
- Darlington pair — Sidney Darlington
- Darwin point — Charles Darwin
- Darzens condensation — Auguste George Darzens
- de Broglie wavelength — Louis de Broglie
- de Bruijn sequences — Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn
- de Haas-Van Alphen effect — Wander Johannes de Haas and P. M. van Alphen
- de Haas-Shubnikov effect (a.k.a. Shubnikov-De Haas effect) — Wander Johannes de Haas and Lev Vasiljevich Shubnikov
- Deborah number – the prophetess Deborah (Bible, Judges 5:5)
- Debye effect, length, model, shielding — Peter Joseph William Debye
- Debye-Falkenhagen effect — Peter Joseph William Debye and Hans Falkenhagen
- Richard Dedekind has many topics named after him; see biography article.
- Delbrück scattering — Max Ludwig Henning Delbrück
- Delépine reaction — Stéphane Marcel Delépine
- Dellinger effect (a.k.a. Mögel-Dellinger effect) — John Howard Dellinger (and Hans Mögel)
- Demjanov rearrangement — Nikolai Jakovlevich Demjanov
- Dess-Martin oxidation — Daniel Benjamin Dess and James Cullen Martin
- Destriau effect — Georges Destriau
- deVries effect — Hessel deVries
- Dieckmann condensation — Walter Dieckmann
- Diels-Alder reaction — Otto Paul Hermann Diels and Kurt Alder
- Diophantine equation — Diophantus of Alexandria
- Dirac comb, constant, equation, delta function, measure — Paul Dirac
- Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet has dozens of formulas named after him.
- Divisia index — François Divisia
- Doebner-Miller reaction — Oscar Döbner (Doebner) and Wilhelm von Miller
- Dollo's law — Louis Dollo
- Donnan effect (a.k.a. Gibbs-Donnan effect) — see Gibbs-Donnan effect, below
- Doppler effect (a.k.a. Doppler-Fizeau effect), Doppler profile — Christian Doppler (and Hippolyte Fizeau)
- Dötz reaction — Karl Heinz Dötz
- Drake equation ((a.k.a. Sagan equation, Green Bank equation) — Frank Drake (or Carl Sagan or Green Bank, West Virginia, home to the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO))
- Droste effect — Dutch chocolate maker Droste
- Drude model — Paul Drude
- Duff's device — Tom Duff
- Duffing equation, map — ? Duffing
- Duhamel's formula, integral, and principle – Jean-Maria-Constant Duhamel
- Dulong-Petit law — Pierre Louis Dulong and Alexis Thérèse Petit
- Dunitz angle — Jack David Dunitz
- Durfee polynomial, square — William H. Durfee
E
- Eagle effect — Harry Eagle
- Early effect — James M. Early
- Eberhard effect — Gustav Eberhard
- Eddington limit — Arthur Eddington
- Edgeworth-Bowley box — Francis Ysidro Edgeworth and Arthur Lyon Bowley
- Edison effect — Thomas Edison
- Edman degradation — Pehr Victor Edman
- Edward-Lemieux effect (a.k.a. Anomeric effect) — John Thomas Edward and Raymond U. Lemieux
- Eglinton reaction — Geoffrey Eglinton
- Ehrenfest paradox, time — Paul Ehrenfest
- Ehrenfest-Tolman effect — Paul Ehrenfest(?) and Richard Chace Tolman
- Eimer's organ — Gustav Heinrich Theodor Eimer
- Einstein shift — Albert Einstein
- Einstein-de Haas effect — Albert Einstein and Wander Johannes de Haas
- Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox (a.k.a. EPR paradox, Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen-Bohm paradox) — Albert Einstein, Boris Podolsky, Nathan Rosen (and David Bohm)
- Ekman layer — Walfrid Ekman
- Elbs reaction — Karl Elbs
- Elliott-Halberstam conjecture — Peter D. T. A. Elliott and Heini Halberstam
- Elman network — Jeff Elman
- Elsasser number - Walter M. Elsasser
- Emde reaction — Hermann Karl Christian Maximilian Emde
- Engel curve — Ernst Engel
- Epimenides paradox — Epimenides of Knossos
- Erlenmeyer flask, rule, synthesis — Richard August Carl Emil Erlenmeyer
- Eschenmoser fragmentation — Albert Eschenmoser
- Eschweiler-Clarke reaction — Wilhelm Eschweiler and Hans Thacher Clarke
- Eshelby's inclusion — John D. Eshelby
- Étard reaction — Alexandre Léon Étard
- Ettinghausen effect — Albert von Ettinghausen
- Euler this and that — Leonhard Euler
- Evershed effect — John Evershed
F
- Faà di Bruno's formula — Francesco Faà di Bruno
- Faraday constant, effect, Faraday's law of induction, Faraday's law of electrolysis — Michael Faraday
- Farnsworth-Hirsch fusor — Philo T. Farnsworth and Robert L. Hirsch
- Farr-Jenkins-Paterson index — James N. Farr, James J. Jenkins, and Donald G. Paterson
- Favorskii reaction, rearrangement — Alexei Yevgrafovich Favorskii
- Fehling reaction — Herman Christian von Fehling
- Fenton reaction — Henry John Horstman Fenton
- Fermat's principle — Pierre de Fermat
- Fermi energy, paradox, surface, Fermion — Enrico Fermi
- Fermi-Dirac statistics — Enrico Fermi and Paul Dirac
- Ferrers diagram (a.k.a. Young diagram, Ferrers graph) — Norman Macleod Ferrers
- Feshbach resonance — Herman Feshbach
- Feynman diagram — Richard Feynman
- Feynman-Kac model — Richard Feynman and Mark Kac
- Finkelstein reaction — Hans Finkelstein
- Fischer esterification, indole synthesis — Emil Hermann Fischer
- Fischer-Hafner reaction — Ernst Otto Fischer and Walter Hafner
- Fischer-Tropsch process — Franz Joseph Emil Fischer and Hans Tropsch
- Fischer-Hepp rearrangement — Otto Philipp Fischer and Eduard Hepp
- Fisher distribution — Ronald A. Fisher
- Fisher equation — Irving Fisher
- Fitts' law — Paul M. Fitts
- Flesch-Kincaid Readability Test — Rudolf F. Flesch and J. Peter Kincaid
- Fletcher effect (economy) — T. W. Fletcher
- Fletcher effect (physics) (a.k.a. Hartman effect, Hartman-Fletcher effect) — John R. Fletcher (and Thomas E. Hartman)
- Fletcher effect (psychology) (Fletcher-Munson effect) and Fletcher-Munson curve — Harvey Fletcher and Wilden A. Munson
- Flynn effect — James R. Flynn
- Fog index — see Gunning Fog index, below
- Forbush effect — Scott Ellsworth Forbush
- Forer effect (a.k.a. Barnum effect) — Bertram R. Forer (and Phineas Taylor Barnum)
- Foucault effect (a.k.a. Foucault pendulum) — Jean Bernard Léon Foucault
- Fourier number — Joseph Fourier
- Franck-Condon factor, principle, transition — James Franck and Edward Uhler Condon
- Franssen effect — Nico Franssen
- Franz-Keldysh effect — Walter Franz and Leonid V. Keldysh
- Fraunhofer diffraction, lines — Joseph von Fraunhofer
- Fresnel zone — Augustin Fresnel
- Frey effect — Allan H. Frey
- Friedel oscillations — Jacques Friedel
- Friedel-Crafts reaction — Charles Friedel and James Mason Crafts
- Friedländer synthesis — Paul Friedländer
- Friedmann-Lemaître-Robertson-Walker metric (a.k.a. Friedmann-Robertson-Walker metric, Robertson-Walker metric) — Alexander Friedmann, Georges Lemaître, Howard Percy Robertson and Arthur Geoffrey Walker
- Fries and Photo-Fries rearrangement — Karl Theophil Fries
- Fritsch-Buttenberg-Wiechell rearrangement — Paul Ernst Moritz Fritsch, Wilhelm Paul Buttenberg, and Heinrich G. Wiechell
- Frobenius algebra, automorphism, method, norm, theorem — Ferdinand Georg Frobenius
- Fröhlich term — Herbert Fröhlich
- Froude number — William Froude
- Fry Readability Formula, Graph — Edward Fry
- Fujita scale (a.k.a. F-Scale, Fujita-Pearson scale) — Tetsuya Theodore Fujita (and Allen Pearson)
- Fujiwhara effect — Sakuhei Fujiwhara
G
- Gabriel synthesis — Siegmund Gabriel
- Gantmakher effect — Vsevolod Feliksovich Gantmakher
- Gattermann reaction — Ludwig Gattermann
- Gattermann-Koch reaction — Ludwig Gattermann and Julius Arnold Koch
- Gause's principle/law — Georgyi Frantsevitch Gause
- Gauss effect, Gauss' law — Carl Friedrich Gauss
- Geib-Spevack process (a.k.a. Girdler sulfide (GS) process) — Karl-Hermann Geib and Jerome S. Spevack (and the Girdler company, which built the first American plant using the process)
- Geiger counter (a.k.a. Geiger-Müller counter) — Johannes Wilhelm (Hans) Geiger (and Walther Müller)
- Geiger-Marsden experiment (a.k.a. Rutherford experiment) — Johannes Wilhelm (Hans) Geiger and Ernest Marsden
- Geiger-Müller tube — Johannes Wilhelm (Hans) Geiger and Walther Müller
- Geiger-Nuttall law/rule — Johannes Wilhelm (Hans) Geiger and John Mitchell Nuttall
- Geissler tube — Heinrich Geissler
- Gibbs entropy, free energy, paradox, Gibbs' phase rule, Gibbs phenomenon — Josiah Willard Gibbs
- Gibbs-Donnan effect (a.k.a. Donnan effect) — Josiah Willard Gibbs and Frederick G. Donnan
- Gibbs-Marangoni effect (a.k.a. Marangoni effect) — Josiah Willard Gibbs and Carlo Marangoni
- Gibbs-Helmholtz equation — Josiah Willard Gibbs and Hermann von Helmholtz
- Gibbs-Thomson effect — Josiah Willard Gibbs and three Thomsons: James Thomson, William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, Sir J. J. Thomson
- Giffen good — Sir Robert Giffen
- Girdler process (a.k.a. Geib-Spevack (GS) process) — see Geib-Spevack process, above
- Glaser coupling reaction — Carl Andreas Glaser
- Goldbach's conjecture — Christian Goldbach
- Goldstone boson (a.k.a. Nambu-Goldstone boson) — see Nambu-Goldstone boson, below
- Gomberg-Bachmann reaction — Moses Gomberg and Werner Emmanuel Bachmann
- Goodhart's law — Charles Goodhart
- Goos-Hänchen effect/shift — F. Goos and H. Lindberg-Hänchen
- Graham reaction — William Hardin Graham
- Grashof number — Franz Grashof
- Gregory's diverticulum — Emily Ray Gregory
- Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin cut-off/limit — Kenneth Greisen, Georgiy Zatsepin and Vadim Kuzmin
- Gresham's law — Sir Thomas Gresham
- Grieco condensation — Paul Anthony Grieco
- Griess test (diazotization reaction) — Johann Peter Griess
- Grignard reaction — François Auguste Victor Grignard
- Grob fragmentation — Cyril A. Grob
- Grotrian diagram — Walter Robert Wilhelm Grotrian
- Grotthuss chain — Christian Johann Dietrich Theodor von Grotthuss
- Grotthuss-Draper law — Christian Johann Dietrich Theodor von Grotthuss and John William Draper
- Guggenheim method — Edward Armand Guggenheim
- Gunn diode, effect — John Battiscombe Gunn
- Gunning fog index (a.k.a. Fog index) — Robert Gunning ("fog" is the noun)
- Gutenberg-Richter law — Beno Gutenberg and Charles Francis Richter
H
- Haar measure — Alfréd Haar
- Hadamard inequality — Jacques Solomon Hadamard
- Hadamard-Rademacher-Walsh transform (a.k.a. Hadamard transform) — Jacques Solomon Hadamard, Hans Adolph Rademacher, and Joseph Leonard Walsh
- Haldane effect — John Scott Haldane
- Haldane's principle — John Burdon Sanderson Haldane
- Hall effect — Edwin Hall
- Hamilton's rule — William Donald "Bill" Hamilton
- Hammond postulate — George Simms Hammond
- Hanle effect — Wilhelm Hanle
- Hanlon's razor (a.k.a. Heinlein's razor) — Robert J. Hanlon (or Robert A. Heinlein)
- Hansch constant — Corwin Herman Hansch
- Hardy notation, space — Godfrey H. Hardy
- Hardy-Littlewood circle method, first conjecture — Godfrey H. Hardy and John E. Littlewood
- Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium/law/principle — Wilhelm Weinberg and Godfrey H. Hardy
- Harrod-Johnson diagram — Roy F. Harrod and Harry G. Johnson
- Hartley bands — Walter Noel Hartley
- Hartley oscillator — Ralph Hartley
- Hartman effect (a.k.a. Fletcher effect, Hartman-Fletcher effect)— Thomas E. Hartman (and John R. Fletcher)
- Hartree energy — Douglas Hartree
- Hasse condition, diagram, principle — Helmut Hasse
- Hasse-Minkowski theorem — Helmut Hasse and Hermann Minkowski
- Hausdorff dimension — Felix Hausdorff
- Haworth formula — Sir Walter Norman Haworth
- Hawthorne effect — from the Hawthorne Works factory (where experiments were carried out 1924—1932)
- Hayflick limit — Leonard Hayflick
- Hawking radiation (a.k.a. Bekenstein-Hawking radiation) — Stephen Hawking (and Jacob Bekenstein)
- Hebbian learning — Donald Olding Hebb
- Heine-Borel theorem — Heinrich Eduard Heine and Félix Édouard Justin Émile Borel
- Heinlein's razor — see Hanlon's razor, above
- Heisenberg uncertainty principle — Werner Heisenberg
- Hellmann-Feynman theorem — Hans Hellmann and Richard Feynman
- Helmholtz free energy, Helmholtz resonance — Hermann von Helmholtz
- Hénon maps — Michel Hénon
- Henrietta's law — see Leavitt's law, below
- Herschel effect — Sir John Herschel
- Hertz effect — Heinrich Rudolf Hertz
- Hertzsprung-Russell diagram — Ejnar Hertzsprung and Henry Norris Russell
- Herzberg bands — Gerhard Herzberg
- Heusler alloy — Fritz Heusler
- Heyting algebra, arithmetic — Arend Heyting
- Higgs boson, field — Peter Higgs
- Higgs' laws — Simon Robert Higgs
- Higgs mechanism — see Anderson-Higgs mechanism, above
- Hilbert-Waring theorem (a.k.a. Waring's problem) — David Hilbert and Edward Waring
- Hill sphere (a.k.a. Roche sphere) — George William Hill (and Édouard Roche)
- Hills cloud — Jack G. Hills
- Hipparchic cycle — Hipparchus of Nicaea (a.k.a. Hipparchus of Rhodes)
- Hirayama family — Kiyotsugu Hirayama
- Hirsch-Meeks fusor — Robert L. Hirsch and Gene A. Meeks
- Hoffmann's organ — C. K. Hoffmann
- Hofstadter's butterfly, law — Douglas Richard Hofstadter
- Holetschek effect — Johann Holetschek
- Hooper-Monstein effect – William J. Hooper and Christian Monstein
- Hopfield bands — John J. Hopfield
- Hopfield network — John J. Hopfield
- Hubbert peak — Marion King Hubbert
- Hubble constant, expansion — Edwin Hubble
- Hueppe's rule — F. Hueppe
- Huggins bands — Sir William Huggins
- Huggins effect — William H. Huggins
- Hull rule — Clark L. Hull
- Humphreys line, series — Curtis J. Humphreys
- Hund's Rules — Friedrich Hund
- Hunsdiecker reaction — Heinz Hunsdiecker and Cläre Hunsdiecker
- Hunt effect — Robert W. G. Hunt
- Hutchison effect — John Hutchison
- Huygens' principle — Christiaan Huygens
I
- Imamura-Iida tsunami intensity scale — Fumihiko Imamura and Kumizi Iida
- Imamura-Soloviev tsunami intensity scale — Fumihiko Imamura and Sergey L. Soloviev
- Imbert-Fedorov effect/shift (a.k.a. Imbert-Pavageau-Fedorov effect) — C. Imbert, F. I. Fedorov (and J. Pavageau)
- Ishikawa diagram — Kaoru Ishikawa
- Ising model (a.k.a. Lenz-Ising model) — Ernst Ising (and Wilhelm Lenz)
J
- Jackson diagram — Michael A. Jackson
- Jahn–Teller effect — Hermann Arthur Jahn and Edward Teller
- Jarque-Bera test — Carlos M. Jarque and Anil K. Bera
- Jeffrey's rule — Richard Jeffrey
- Johnson–Nyquist noise — John B. Johnson and Harry Nyquist
- Johnston diagram — Russell Johnston
- Jonnesco's fossa — Thomas Jonnesco
- Jordan's rule/law — David Starr Jordan
- Josephson constant, effect, junction — Brian David Josephson
- Jost's laws (of rehearsal and forgetting) — Adolf Jost
- Joule's law (a.k.a. Joule-Lenz law) — James Prescott Joule (and Heinrich Friedrich Emil Lenz)
- Joule–Thomson effect (a.k.a. Joule–Kelvin effect) — James Prescott Joule and William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
K
- K3 surface — Ernst Kummer, Erich Kähler, Kunihiko Kodaira
- Kac model — Mark Kac
- Kähler differential, manifold, metric — Erich Kähler
- Kapitsa–Dirac effect — Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa and Paul Dirac
- Karnaugh map (a.k.a. Karnaugh-Veitch map, Veitch diagram) — Maurice Karnaugh (and Edward W. Veitch)
- Kater's pendulum — Captain Henry Kater
- Kaye effect — Alan Kaye
- Keeling curve — Charles David Keeling
- Kelvin effect — William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
- Kelvin-Voigt material, model – Woldemar Voigt and William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
- Kennelly-Heaviside layer — Arthur Edwin Kennelly and Oliver Heaviside
- Kerr effect — John Kerr
- Kiepert hyperbola, parabola — Friedrich Wilhelm August Ludwig Kiepert
- Kirkendall effect — Ernest Kirkendall
- Klein-Gordon equation — Oskar Klein and Walter Gordon
- Klein-Nishina effect — Oskar Klein and Yoshio Nishina
- Knudsen cell, effect, number — Martin Hans Christian Knudsen
- Kochen–Specker paradox — Simon Kochen and Ernst Specker
- Kodaira dimension, embedding theorem, vanishing theorem — Kunihiko Kodaira
- Kodaira–Spencer mapping — Kunihiko Kodaira, Donald C. Spencer
- Koenigs–Knorr reaction — Wilhelm Koenigs and Edward Knorr
- Kohn effect — Walter Kohn
- Kohn-Sham equations — Walter Kohn and Lu Jeu Sham
- Kohonen network — Teuvo Kohonen
- Kolbe-Schmitt reaction and Kolbe electrolysis— Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe and Rudolf Schmitt
- Kondo effect — Jun Kondo
- Kornblum oxidation and Kornblum–DeLaMare rearrangement — Nathan Kornblume and Harold E. DeLaMare
- Koss–Gräer effect — Brian Koss and David Gräer
- Kossel effect, Kossel lines, Kossel diagram — Walther Kossel
- Kossel–Möllenstedt pattern — Walther Kossel and Gottfried Möllenstedt
- Kosterlitz–Thouless transition — see Berezinsky–Kosterlitz–Thouless transition, above
- Kostinsky effect — Sergey Konstantinovich Kostinsky (a.k.a. S. K. Kostinskii)
- Kozai effect — Yoshihide Kozai
- Krebs cycle — Hans Adolf Krebs
- Kratzer potential — Adolf Kratzer
- Krishnan effect — Rappal S. Krishnan
- Kronecker delta — Leopold Kronecker
- Kuiper Belt — Gerard Kuiper
- Kummer's equation, Kummer's functions, Kummer surface — Ernst Kummer
- Kuramoto model — Yoshiki Kuramoto
L
- Lagrangian mechanics, Lagrange points — Joseph Louis Lagrange
- Laing-Garrington effect — Robert Laing and Simon Garrington
- Lamb shift (a.k.a. Lamb-Retheford shift) — Willis Lamb (and Robert Retheford)
- Lambert's emission law (a.k.a. Lambert's cosine law) — Johann Heinrich Lambert
- Landau damping, pole — Lev Davidovich Landau
- Landau–Pomeranchuk–Migdal effect — Lev Davidovich Landau, Isaak Pomeranchuk, and Arkady Migdal
- Landau-Zener transition — Lev Davidovich Landau and Clarence Zener
- Landé g-factor — Alfred Landé
- Lange's nerve — W. Lange
- Langmuir probe — Irving Langmuir
- Langmuir-Blodgett film — Irving Langmuir and Katharine B. Blodgett
- Larmor frequency, precession, radius — Sir Joseph Larmor
- Larsen effect — Soren Larsen
- Laspeyres index — Ernst Louis Etienne Laspeyres
- Leavitt's law (a.k.a. Henrietta's law) — Henrietta Swan Leavitt
- Le Chatelier's principle — Henri Louis Le Chatelier
- Leduc-Righi effect (a.k.a. Righi-Leduc effect) — S. Leduc and Augusto Righi
- Leidenfrost effect, point — Johann Gottlob Leidenfrost
- Lenard effect — Philipp Eduard Anton von Lenard
- Lennard-Jones potential — John Lennard-Jones
- Lense-Thirring effect (a.k.a. Thirring effect) — Josef Lense and Hans Thirring
- Lenz's law — Heinrich Friedrich Emil Lenz
- Lenz-Ising model — see Ising model, above
- Levi-Civita symbol — Tullio Levi-Civita
- Little-Parks effect — W. A. Little and R. D. Parks
- Littlewood-Offord problem — John E. Littlewood and A. Cyril Offord
- Locard's exchange principle – Edmond Locard
- Lohmann-Ruchti effect — Martin Lohmann and Hans Ruchti
- Lombard effect — Étienne Lombard
- Lomonosov effect — Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov
- London force — Fritz London
- Lorentz force, transformation — Hendrik Antoon Lorentz
- Lorentz-Lorenz equation — Hendrik Antoon Lorentz and Ludvig Lorenz
- Lorenz attractor — Edward Norton Lorenz
- Lorenz curve — Max O. Lorenz
- Lorenz gauge condition — Ludvig Lorenz
- Lorenz-Mie scattering — see Mie scattering, below
- Lorenzini's ampullae — Stefano Lorenzini
- Loschmidt's paradox — Johann Loschmidt
- Lossev effect — O. V. Lossev
- Lotka-Volterra equation — Alfred J. Lotka and Vito Volterra
- Love waves — Augustus Edward Hough Love
- Lucas critique — Robert Lucas, Jr.
- Ludwig's nerve — Hubert Ludwig
- Lyapunov's central limit theorem, condition, equation, exponent, fractal, function, stability, test, time and tube — Aleksandr Mikhailovich Lyapunov
- Lyman line, series — Theodore Lyman
- Lyman-Birge-Hopfield bands (a.k.a. Birge-Hopfield bands) — Theodore Lyman, Raymond T. Birge, and John J. Hopfield
M
- Mach band/effect, number, principle — Ernst Mach
- Mach-Zehnder interferometer — Ernst Mach and Ludwig Zehnder
- Madelung constant, Madelung rule, Madelung energy — Erwin Madelung
- Maggi-Righi-Leduc effect — Gian Antonio Maggi, Augusto Righi and S. Leduc
- Magnus effect — Heinrich Gustav Magnus
- Mahalanobis distance — Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis (প্রশান্ত চন্দ্র মহলানবিস)
- Mahler measure, Mahler's theorem — Kurt Mahler
- Malmquist bias, effect — Karl Gunnar Malmquist
- Malus' law — Étienne-Louis Malus
- Malthusian parameter — named by Ronald Fisher as a criticism of Thomas Robert Malthus
- Malthusian catastrophe, growth model — Thomas Robert Malthus
- Mandel'shtam-Brillouin scattering — Leonid Isaakovich Mandel'shtam and Léon Brillouin
- Marangoni cell/convection (a.k.a. Bénard-Marangoni convection) — see Bénard-Marangoni cell/convection, above
- Marangoni effect (a.k.a. Gibbs-Marangoni effect) — see Gibbs-Marangoni effect, above
- Markov's inequality, chain, partition, Markovian process — Andrey Markov
- Mathieu functions — Émile Léonard Mathieu
- Matilda effect — Matilda Joslyn Gage
- Matthew effect — Matthew the Evangelist
- Maxwell effect (optics) — James Clark Maxwell
- Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution — James Clark Maxwell and Ludwig Boltzmann
- Maxwell-Wien bridge — James Clark Maxwell(?) and Wilhelm Wien
- Mazurkiewicz trace — Antoni Mazurkiewicz
- McCollough effect — Celeste McCollough
- McCulloch-Pitts neuron — Warren McCulloch and Walter Pitts
- McGurk effect (a.k.a. McGurk-MacDonald effect) — Harry McGurk (and John MacDonald
- Meissner effect (a.k.a. Meissner-Ochsenfeld effect) — Walter Meissner (and Robert Ochsenfeld)
- Mercalli intensity scale (Modified Mercalli scale) — Giuseppe Mercalli
- Metonic cycle — Meton of Athens
- Meyers synthesis — Albert I. Meyers
- Mie scattering (a.k.a. Lorenz-Mie scattering) — Gustav Mie (and Ludvig Lorenz)
- Mihăilescu's theorem (a.k.a. Catalan's conjecture) — Preda Mihăilescu
- Mikheyev-Smirnov-Wolfenstein effect — Stanislav Mikheyev, Alexei Smirnov, and Lincoln Wolfenstein
- Miller effect — John Milton Miller (John M. Miller)
- Miller indices (a.k.a. Miller-Bravais indices) — William Hallowes Miller (and Auguste Bravais)
- Misznay-Schardin effect — Col. Misznay and Hubert Schardin
- Mögel–Dellinger effect — see Dellinger effect, above
- Mohorovičić discontinuity (Moho) — Andrija Mohorovičić
- Mohr's circle — Christian Otto Mohr
- Mohr-Coulomb theory — Christian Otto Mohr and Charles-Augustin de Coulomb
- Morgan unit — Thomas Hunt Morgan
- Morse potential — Philip M. Morse
- Mössbauer effect — Rudolf Mössbauer
- Mott cross-section, Mott insulator, Mott transition — Nevill Francis Mott
- Mpemba effect — Erasto B. Mpemba
- Müllerian mimicry — Fritz Müller
- Munroe effect — Charles Edward Munroe
- Murphy's law — Maj. Edward A. Murphy, Jr.
N
- Nambu-Goldstone boson (a.k.a. Goldstone boson) — Yoichiro Nambu and Jeffrey Goldstone
- Nash equilibrium — John Forbes Nash
- Nassi-Shneiderman diagram — Isaac Nassi and Ben Shneiderman
- Necker cube — Louis Albert Necker
- Néel temperature — Louis Néel
- Nernst equation — Walther Hermann Nernst
- Nernst-Ettingshausen effect — Walther Hermann Nernst and Albert von Ettingshausen
- Newcomb's paradox — William Newcomb
- Newton's rings, Newtonian constant, mechanics — Isaac Newton
- Nichols-Tolman effect — Nichols and Richard Chace Tolman
- Nordmann-Tikhoff effect — Charles Nordmann and Gavriil Adrianovich Tikhov
- Nordtvedt effect — Kenneth L. Nordtvedt
- Nurgaliev's law — Ildus S. Nurgaliev
- Nyquist frequency, Nyquist rate — Harry Nyquist
- Nyquist-Shannon sampling theorem (a.k.a. Nyquist-Shannon-Kotelnikov, Whittaker-Shannon-Kotelnikov, Whittaker-Nyquist-Kotelnikov-Shannon, WKS theorem) — Harry Nyquist, Claude Shannon, E. T. Whittaker, and Vladimir Kotelnikov
O
- O'Connell effect — Daniel Joseph Kelly O'Connell
- Olbers' paradox — Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers
- Ohm's law — Georg Ohm
- Okun's law — Arthur Okun
- Omori's law — Fusakichi Omori
- Onnes effect — Heike Kamerlingh Onnes
- Oort cloud (a.k.a. Öpik-Oort Cloud) — Jan Hendrik Oort (and Ernst Julius Öpik)
- Ostwald's dilution law, Ostwald process — Friedrich Wilhelm Ostwald
- Overhauser effect — Albert Overhauser
- Ovshinsky effect — Stanford R. Ovshinsky
P
- Paal-Knorr synthesis — Carl Paal and Ludwig Knorr
- Pareto chart, distribution, efficiency, index, principle — Vilfredo Federico Damaso Pareto
- Parrondo's paradox — J. M. R. Parrondo
- Paschen curve, line, law — Friedrich Paschen
- Paschen-Back effect — Friedrich Paschen and Ernst Back
- Paternò-Büchi reaction - Emanuele Paternò and George Hermann Büchi
- Pasteur effect — Louis Pasteur
- Pauli exclusion principle — Wolfgang Pauli
- Peano curve — Giuseppe Peano
- Pearson-Anson effect — S. O. Pearson and H. St. G. Anson
- Péclet number — Jean Claude Eugène Péclet
- Peltier effect — Jean Charles Athanase Peltier
- Perlin noise — Ken Perlin
- Perron-Frobenius theorem — Oskar Perron, and Ferdinand Georg Frobenius
- Petkau effect — Abram Petkau
- Petri dish — Julius Richard Petri
- Petri net — Carl Adam Petri
- Peyer's patches — Johann Conrad Peyer
- Pfund line, series — August Herman Pfund
- Phillips curve — William Phillips (economist)
- Pigou effect — Arthur Cecil Pigou
- Pisot-Vijayaraghavan number — Charles Pisot and Tirukkannapuram Vijayaraghavan
- Planck constant, length, mass, time — Max Planck
- Platonic year — Plato
- Pockels effect — Friedrich Carl Alwin Pockels
- Pogson ratio — Norman Robert Pogson
- Poincaré map, section — Jules-Henri Poincaré
- Poincaré-Bendixson theorem — Jules-Henri Poincaré and Ivar Otto Bendixson
- Poinsot spiral — Louis Poinsot
- Polian vesicles — Giuseppe Saverio Poli
- Potts cluster, Potts model (a.k.a. Ashkin-Teller model) — Renfrey B. Potts
- Pourbaix diagram — Marcel Pourbaix
- Poynting effect, vector — John Henry Poynting
- Poynting-Robertson effect — John Henry Poynting and Howard Percy Robertson
- Prandtl number — Ludwig Prandtl
- Primakov effect — ? Primakov
- Proteus phenomenon — Proteus (mythological god)
- Prouho's membrane — Henri Prouho
- Pulfrich effect — Carl Pulfrich
- Purkinje effect/shift — Johannes Evangelista Purkinje
- Pygmalion effect (a.k.a. Rosenthal effect, Observer-expectancy effect) — Pygmalion (and Robert Rosenthal)
R
- Rabi oscillations — Isidor Isaac Rabi
- Rademacher distribution, function, series, sum — Hans Adolph Rademacher
- Rademacher-Kolmogorov theorem — Hans Adolph Rademacher and Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov
- Rademacher-Menchov theorem — Hans Adolph Rademacher and ? Menchov
- Raman scattering — Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
- Ramsauer-Townsend effect (a.k.a. Ramsauer effect, Townsend effect) — Carl Ramsauer and John Sealy Townsend
- Ramsden circle/disc/eyepoint, eyepiece — Jesse Ramsden
- Ramsey spectroscopy - Norman F. Ramsey
- Ramsey theory — Frank Plumpton Ramsey
- Ramsey-DeFinetti theorem — Frank Plumpton Ramsey and Bruno de Finetti
- Rapoport's rule — Eduardo H. Rapoport
- Raychaudhuri's equation — Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri (অমল কুমার রায়চৌধুরী)
- Raygor Estimate Graph — Alton L. Raygor
- Rayleigh criterion, distribution, fading, number, quotient, scattering, waves — Lord Rayleigh
- Rayleigh-Bénard cell/convection — Lord Rayleigh and Henri Bénard
- Rayleigh-Jeans law — Lord Rayleigh and Sir James Jeans
- Reidemeister moves — Kurt Reidemeister
- Rescorla-Wagner rule — Robert A. Rescorla and Allan R. Wagner
- Reynolds number, Reynolds analogy — Osborne Reynolds
- Ribot's law (of Retrograde Amnesia) — Théodule Ribot
- Ricardian equivalence — see Barro-Ricardo equivalence, above
- Richardson's constant, equation, law — Owen Willans Richardson
- Richardson number — Lewis Fry Richardson
- Richter magnitude scale — Charles Francis Richter
- Righi-Leduc effect (a.k.a. Leduc-Righi effect) — Augusto Righi and S. Leduc
- Ringelmann effect — Max Ringelmann
- Robertson-Walker metric (a.k.a. Friedmann-Robertson-Walker metric) — see Friedmann-Lemaître-Robertson-Walker metric, above
- Roche limit — Édouard Roche
- Roche sphere (a.k.a. Hill sphere) — Édouard Roche (and George William Hill)
- Rollin film — Bernard V. Rollin
- Rosenthal effect (a.k.a. Pygmalion effect, Observer-expectancy effect) — Robert Rosenthal (and Pygmalion)
- Rossi-Forel scale — Michele Stefano Conte de Rossi and François-Alphonse Forel
- Rössler equation — Otto Rössler
- Rossmann fold — Michael Rossmann
- Ruelle operator, zeta function — David Ruelle
- Ruelle-Perron-Frobenius theorem — David Ruelle, Oskar Perron, and Ferdinand Georg Frobenius
- Ruhmkorff coil — Heinrich D. Ruhmkorff
- Runge's phenomenon — Carle David Tolmé Runge
- Russell's paradox — Bertrand Russell
- Rutherford experiment (a.k.a. Geiger-Marsden experiment), scattering — Ernest Rutherford
- Rybczynski theorem — Tadeusz Rybczynski
- Rydberg constant, formula — Johannes Rydberg
S
- Sabatier or Sabattier effect — Sabat[t]ier, first name unknown
- Sachs-Wolfe effect — Rainer Kurt Sachs and Arthur Michael Wolfe
- Saffir-Simpson hurricane scale — Herbert S. Saffir and Robert ("Bob") Simpson
- Sagnac effect — Georges Sagnac
- Saha ionization equation (a.k.a. Saha-Langmuir equation) — Megh Nad Saha (মেঘনাদ সাহা) (and Irving Langmuir)
- Sasakian manifold, metric — Shigeo Sasaki
- St. Elmo's fire — Erasmus of Formiae
- Salem number — Raphaël Salem
- Say's law — Jean-Baptiste Say
- Schering Bridge — Harald Schering
- Schild plot, regression analysis — Heinz Otto Schild
- Schottky effect — Walter H. Schottky
- Schröter effect — Johann Hieronymus Schröter
- Schülen-Wilson effect — see Wilson effect, below
- Schuler period, tuning — Maximilian Schuler
- Schumann-Runge bands — Victor Schumann and Carle David Tolmé Runge
- Schwarzschild effect, metric, radius — Karl Schwarzschild
- Scott effect — Elizabeth L. Scott
- Searl effect — John R. R. Searl
- Secchi (stellar) class, depth, disk — Pietro Angelo Secchi
- Seebeck effect — Thomas Johann Seebeck
- Sertoli cells — Enrico Sertoli
- Serre duality — Jean-Pierre Serre
- Seyfert galaxy — Carl Keenan Seyfert
- Shapiro effect — Irwin Shapiro
- Shimizu-Morioka equations — Tatsujiro Shimizu and N. Morioka
- Shubnikov-De Haas effect — see De Haas-Shubnikov effect, above
- Sieberg tsunami intensity scale — August H. Sieberg
- Sieberg-Ambraseys tsunami intensity scale — August H. Sieberg and Nicholas N. Ambraseys
- Simmons-Smith reaction — Howard Ensign Simmons, Jr.
- Simroth's organs — Heinrich Rudolf Simroth
- Smale's horseshoe — Stephen Smale
- Smale-Rössler theorem — Stephen Smale and Otto Rössler
- Snell's law — Willebrord van Roijen Snell
- Soloviev tsunami intensity scale — Sergey L. Soloviev
- Sommerfeld-Kossel displacement law — Arnold Sommerfeld and Walther Kossel
- Spörer's law, Spörer Minimum — Gustav Spörer
- Staebler-Wronski effect — David L. Staebler and Christopher R. Wronski
- Stark effect (a.k.a. Stark-Lo Surdo effect) — Johannes Stark (and Antonino Lo Surdo)
- Stark ladder (a.k.a. Wannier-Stark ladder, q.v.) — Johannes Stark and Gregory Hugh Wannier
- Stark-Einstein law — Johannes Stark and Albert Einstein
- Stebbins-Whitford effect — Joel Stebbins and Albert Edward Whitford
- Stefan's constant, law (a.k.a. Stefan-Boltzmann constant, law) — Jožef Stefan (and Ludwig Boltzmann)
- Stensen's duct — Niels Stensen
- Stern-Levison parameter — S. Alan Stern and Harold F. Levison
- Stevens effect — J. C. and Stanley Smith Stevens
- Stevens' power law — Stanley Smith Stevens
- Stewart's organs — Charles Stewart
- Stewart-Tolman effect — Thomas Dale Stewart and Richard Chace Tolman
- Stirling number — James Stirling
- Stokes radius — George Gabriel Stokes
- Stokes shift — George Gabriel Stokes
- Stolper-Samuelson theorem — Paul Samuelson and Wolfgang Stolper
- Strömgren age, photometry, sphere — Bengt Georg Daniel Strömgren
- Strömgren-Crawford photometry — Bengt Georg Daniel Strömgren and David L. Crawford
- Stroop effect — John Ridley Stroop
- Strouhal number — Vincenc Strouhal
- Stückelberg action — Ernst Carl Gerlach Stueckelberg
- Sturgeon's law — Theodore Sturgeon
- Sturmian trajectories — Charles François Sturm
- Suess effect — Hans Eduard Suess
- Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect — Rashid Sunyaev and Yakov Zel'dovich
T
- Tait-Bryan angles (a.k.a. Cardan angles, nautical angles) — Peter Guthrie Tait and George Bryan (?)
- Talbot effect — William Henry Fox Talbot
- 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
- 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
U
V
- Vackár oscillator (a.k.a. Tesla oscillator) — Jirí Vackár (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
W
- 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 — Leon 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)
- 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
- 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 — E. T. Whittaker
- Whittaker–Shannon interpolation formula — E. T. Whittaker, J. M. Whittaker, Claude Shannon
- Widrow-Hoff rule — Bernard Widrow and Ted Hoff
- Wiedemann-Franz law — Gustav Wiedemann and Rudolf Franz
- 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
- 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
Y
- Yarkovsky effect — Ivan Osipovich Yarkovsky
- YORP effect — Ivan Osipovich Yarkovsky, John A. O'Keefe, V. V. Radzievskii, and Stephen J. Paddack
- Young diagram (a.k.a. Ferrers diagram), Young tableau — Alfred Young
- Young's modulus — Thomas Young
Z
- Zeeman effect — Pieter Zeeman
- Zener effect — Clarence Melvin Zener
- Zeno effect — Zeno of Elea
- Zipf's law — George K. Zipf
See also
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