scientific laws named after people

list of eponymous laws.

This is a list of scientific laws named after people. For other lists of eponyms (names derived from people) see lists of etymologies.

Ampre's law – Andr-Marie Ampre
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
Gdel's incompleteness theorem – Kurt Gdel
Graham's law – Thomas Graham
Henry's law – William Henry
Hooke's law – Robert Hooke
Kepler's laws of planetary motion – Johannes Kepler
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

Scientific Laws Named After People

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