scientific phenomena named after people

This is a list of scientific phenomena named after people. See also list of eponymous laws and scientific laws named after people.

For other lists of eponyms (names derived from people) see eponym.

For a list of eponyms sorted by name see list of eponyms.

Bose-Einstein condensate – Satyendra Nath Bose and Albert Einstein
Brownian motion – Robert Brown
Casimir effect – Hendrik Casimir
Cherenkov effect – Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov
Coanda effect – Henri Coanda
Compton effect – Arthur Compton
Coriolis effect – Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis
Curie point – Pierre Curie
Doppler effect – Christian Doppler
Doppler profile – Christian Doppler
Edison effect – Thomas Edison
Fermi energy, Fermi paradox – Enrico Fermi
Gibbs phenomenon – Josiah Willard Gibbs
Hall effect – Edwin Hall
Josephson effect – Brian David Josephson
Kennelly-Heaviside layer – Arthur Edwin Kennelly and Oliver Heaviside
Kerr effect – John Kerr (physicist)
Kuiper Belt – Gerard Kuiper
Landau damping – Lev Davidovich Landau
Landau pole – Lev Davidovich Landau
Lennard-Jones potential – John Lennard-Jones
London force – Fritz London
Lorentz force – Hendrik Lorentz
Meissner effect (or Meissner-Ochsenfeld effect) – Walter Meissner (and Robert Ochsenfeld)
Mohorovičić discontinuity (Moho) – Andrija Mohorovičić
Morse potential – Philip M. Morse
Mossbauer effect – Rudolf Mssbauer
Newton's rings – Isaac Newton
Oort Cloud – Jan Oort
Pauli exclusion principle – Wolfgang Pauli
Peltier effect – Jean Charles Athanase Peltier
Pockels effect – Friedrich Carl Alwin Pockels
Raman effect – C. V. Raman
Rayleigh scattering – Lord Rayleigh
Runge's phenomenon – Carle David Tolm Runge
St. Elmo's fire – Saint Elmo
Seebeck effect – Thomas Seebeck
Stark effect – Johannes Stark
Sunyaev-Zeldovic effect – Rashid Sunyaev and Yakov B. Zeldovic
Tesla effect – Nikola Tesla
Van Allen radiation belt – James Van Allen
Van der Waals force – Johannes Diderik van der Waals
Zeeman effect – Pieter Zeeman