This is a list of scientific phenomena and concepts named after people (eponymous phenomena). For other lists of eponyms, see eponym.
Abderhalden–Fauser reaction – Emil Abderhalden and August Fauser (1856–1938)
Abney effect, Abney's law of additivity – William de Wiveleslie Abney
Abrikosov lattice – Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov
Accot–Zhai steering law – Johnny Accot and Shumin Zhai
Aharonov–Bohm effect – Yakir Aharonov and David Bohm
Alfvén wave – Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén
Alhazen's problem – Alhazen
Allais effect – Maurice Allais
Allee effect – Warder Clyde Allee
Amdahl's law, a.k.a. Amdahl's argument – Gene Amdahl
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
Apgar score – Virginia Apgar
Arago spot – Dominique François Jean Arago
Michaelis–Arbuzov 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 – 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 – 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
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
Bahtinov mask – Pavel Bahtinov
Baily's beads – Francis Baily
Baker–Nathan effect – John William Baker and Wilfred S. Nathan
Bakerian mimicry – Herbert G. Baker
Baldwin effect (astronomy) – Jack Allen Baldwin
Baldwin effect (Baldwinian evolution, Ontogenic evolution) – James Mark Baldwin
Baldwin's rules – Sir Jack Edward Baldwin
Balmer line, series – Johann Jakob Balmer
Bamberger rearrangement – Eugen Bamberger
Bamford–Stevens reaction – William Randall Bamford and Thomas Stevens Stevens
Bardeen vacuum – James Maxwell Bardeen
Barkhausen effect – Heinrich Barkhausen
Barnett effect – Samuel Jackson Barnett
Barnum effect (a.k.a. Forer effect) – Phineas Taylor Barnum (and Bertram R. Forer)
Barro–Ricardo equivalence – Robert Barro and David Ricardo
Barton reaction – Sir Derek Harold Richard Barton
Barton–McCombie deoxygenation – 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
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
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
Bélády's anomaly – László Bélády
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
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
Berezinsky–Kosterlitz–Thouless transition – Veniamin L. Berezinsky, John M. Kosterlitz, and David J. Thouless
Bergman cyclization – Robert George Bergman
Bergmann's rule – Carl Bergmann (anatomist)
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 shift (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
Biot number – Jean-Baptiste Biot
Biot–Savart law – Jean-Baptiste Biot and Félix Savart
Birch reduction – Arthur John Birch
Birkeland currents – Kristian Birkeland
Bischler–Napieralski reaction – August Bischler and Bernard Napieralski
Black's equation for electromigration – James R. Black (d. 2004) of Motorola
Blandford–Znajek process – Roger D. Blandford and Roman L. Znajek
Blazhko effect – Sergey Blazhko
Bloch wave – Felix Bloch
Bloom filter – Burton Howard Bloom
Bodenstein number – probably Max Bodenstein (1871–1942)
Bohm sheath criterion – David Bohm
Bohr effect – Christian Bohr
Bohr magneton, model, radius – Niels Bohr
Boltzmann constant – Ludwig Boltzmann
Bonnor–Ebert mass – William Bowen Bonnor and Rolf Ebert
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
Born–Haber cycle – Max Born and Fritz Haber
Born–Oppenheimer approximation – Max Born and Robert Oppenheimer
Borodin–Hunsdiecker reaction – Alexander Borodin, Hienz Hunsdiecker, and Clare Hunsdiecker (née Dieckmann)
Borrmann effect (a.k.a. Borrmann–Campbell effect) – Gerhard Borrman (and Herbert N. Campbell)
Bortle Dark-Sky Scale – John E. Bortle
Bose–Einstein condensate, effect, statistics – Satyendra Nath Bose and Albert Einstein
Boson – Satyendra Nath Bose
Boyle's law (a.k.a. Boyle–Mariotte law) – Robert Boyle (and Edme Mariotte)
Brackett line/series – Frederick Sumner Brackett
Bradford's law (of scattering) – Samuel C. Bradford
Braess' paradox – Dietrich Braess
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
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 zone – Léon Brillouin
Brinkman number – Hendrik C. Brinkman
Brook rearrangement – Adrian Gibbs Brook
Brooks's law (of software development) – Frederick Phillips Brooks, Jr.
Brownian motion – Robert Brown
Bucherer reaction – Hans Theodor Bucherer
Büchi automata – Julius Richard Büchi
Buckingham π theorem – Edgar Buckingham (and Aimé Vaschy)
Burali-Forti paradox – Cesare Burali-Forti
Bürgi–Dunitz angle – Hans-Beat Bürgi and Jack David Dunitz
Cabannes–Daure effect – Jean Cabannes and Pierre Daure
Cadiot–Chodkiewicz coupling, reaction – Paul Cadiot and Wladyslav Chodkiewicz
Callendar effect – Guy Stewart Callendar
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 limit, number – Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Chang–Refsdal lens – Kyongae Chang and Sjur Refsdal
Chaplygin gas – Sergey Alexeyevich Chaplygin
Chapman rearrangement – Arthur William Chapman
Charles's law – Jacques Charles
Chebyshev distance, equation, filter, linkage, polynomials – Pafnuty Chebyshev
Chebyshev's inequality (a.k.a. Bienaymé–Chebyshev inequality) – Pafnuty 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
Chisholm's paradox – Roderick Milton Chisholm
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
Clairaut's relation, theorem – Alexis Claude Clairaut
Claisen condensation, rearrangement – Rainer Ludwig Claisen
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
Clemmensen reduction – Erik Christian Clemmensen
Coanda effect – Henri Coanda
Coase theorem – Ronald Coase
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
Collatz conjecture (a.k.a. Ulam conjecture, Kakutani's problem, Thwaites conjecture, Hasse's algorithm, Syracuse problem), graph – Lothar Collatz (or Stanislaw Ulam, Shizuo Kakutani, Sir Bryan Thwaites, Helmut Hasse)
Colpitts oscillator – Edwin H. Colpitts
Compton effect, scattering, wavelength – Arthur Compton
Compton–Getting effect – Arthur Compton and Ivan A. Getting
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
Cotton effect – Aimé Auguste Cotton
Cotton–Mouton effect – Aimé Auguste Cotton and Henri 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
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
Dakin reaction, Dakin-West reaction – Henry Drysdale Dakin (and Randolph West)
Dalton's law (of partial pressures) – John Dalton
Damerau–Levenshtein distance – Frederick J. Damerau and Vladimir Levenshtein
Danishefsky reaction – Samuel J. Danishefsky
Darlington pair – Sidney Darlington
Darcy's law – Henry Darcy
Darwin drift – Charles Galton Darwin
Darwin point, Darwinism – Charles Darwin
Darzens condensation – Auguste George Darzens
Davies–Bouldin index (DBI) – David L. Davies and Donald W. Bouldin
de Broglie wavelength – Louis de Broglie
de Bruijn sequences – Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn
de Haas–van Alphen effect – Wander Johannes de Haas and Pieter M. van Alphen
de Haas–Shubnikov effect – see Shubnikov–de Haas effect, below
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
Dermott's law – Stanley Dermott
Dess–Martin oxidation – Daniel Benjamin Dess and James Cullen Martin
Dice's coefficient – Lee Raymond Dice
Dieckmann condensation – Walter Dieckmann
Diels–Alder reaction – Otto Paul Hermann Diels and Kurt Alder
Diophantine equation – Diophantus of Alexandria
Dirac comb, fermion, spinor, equation, delta function, measure – Paul Dirac
Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet has dozens of formulas named after him, see List of things named after Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet
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
Downs–Thomson paradox – Anthony Downs and John Michael Thomson
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 – Georg Duffing
Duhamel's integral, and principle – Jean-Marie Constant Duhamel
Dulong–Petit law – Pierre Louis Dulong and Alexis Thérèse Petit
Dunitz angle – see Bürgi–Dunitz angle, above
Dyson–Harrop satellite – Brooks L. Harrop and Freeman Dyson
Early effect – James M. Early
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 – Paul Ehrenfest
Eimer's organ – Gustav Heinrich Theodor Eimer
Einstein Cross, effect, radius, ring, 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
Engel curve – Ernst Engel
Engelbart's Law – Douglas Engelbart
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 (numerous entries) – Leonhard Euler
Evershed effect – John Evershed
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
Favorskii reaction, rearrangement – Alexei Yevgrafovich Favorskii
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
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–Munson effect and Fletcher–Munson curves – Harvey Fletcher and Wilden A. Munson
Flynn effect – Jim Flynn
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
Fourier series – Joseph Fourier
Fourier–Motzkin elimination – Joseph Fourier and Theodore Motzkin
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
Freeman law – Ken Freeman
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 P. 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
Froude number – William Froude
Fry readability formula – Edward Fry
Fujita scale (a.k.a. F-Scale, Fujita–Pearson scale) – Tetsuya Theodore Fujita (and Allen Pearson)
Fujiwhara effect – Sakuhei Fujiwhara
Gabriel synthesis – Siegmund Gabriel
Garman limit – Elspeth Garman
Gattermann reaction – Ludwig Gattermann
Gattermann–Koch reaction – Ludwig Gattermann and Julius Arnold Koch
Gaunt factor (or Kramers–Gaunt factor) – John Arthur Gaunt (and Hendrik Anthony Kramers)
Gause's principle – Georgii Gause
Gauss's law – Carl Friedrich Gauss
Gauss–Bonnet gravity, theorem – Carl Friedrich Gauss and Pierre Ossian Bonnet
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 Joseph John "J. J." Thomson
Giffen good – Sir Robert Giffen
Gloger's rule – Constantin Wilhelm Lambert Gloger
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 or shift – Hermann Fritz Gustav Goos and Hilda Hänchen
Gould Belt – Benjamin Gould
Grashof number – Franz Grashof
Greisen–Zatsepin–Kuzmin cut-off/limit (a.k.a. GZK cutoff/limit) – Kenneth Greisen, Georgiy Zatsepin and Vadim Kuzmin
Gresham's law – Sir Thomas Gresham
Griess test (diazotization reaction) – Johann Peter Griess
Grignard reaction – François Auguste Victor Grignard
Grob fragmentation – Cyril A. Grob
Gromov–Witten invariant – Mikhail Gromov and Edward Witten
Grosch's law – Herbert Reuben John Grosch
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
Gunn diode, effect – John Battiscombe "J. B." Gunn
Gunning fog index – Robert Gunning
Gustafson's law, a.k.a. Gustafson–Barsis's law – John L. Gustafson (and Edward H. Barsis)
Gutenberg–Richter law – Beno Gutenberg and Charles Francis Richter
Haar measure – Alfréd Haar
Hadamard inequality – Jacques Solomon Hadamard
Hadamard transform (a.k.a. Hadamard–Rademacher–Walsh transform) – Jacques Hadamard, Hans Rademacher, and Joseph L. Walsh
Haitz's law – Roland Haitz
Haldane effect – John Scott Haldane
Haldane's principle – John Burdon Sanderson Haldane
Hall effect – Edwin Hall
Hamilton's rule – William Donald "Bill" Hamilton
Hamming distance, weight – Richard Hamming
Hammond postulate – George Simms Hammond
Hanle effect – Wilhelm Hanle
Hardy notation, space – Godfrey Harold Hardy
Hardy–Littlewood circle method, first conjecture – Godfrey Harold Hardy and John E. Littlewood
Hardy–Weinberg principle – Wilhelm Weinberg and Godfrey Harold Hardy
Harrod–Johnson diagram – Roy F. Harrod and Harry G. Johnson
Hartley oscillator – Ralph Hartley
Hartman effect – Thomas E. Hartman
Hartmann mask (or hat) – Johannes Hartmann
Hartree energy – Douglas Hartree
Hasse's algorithm – see Collatz conjecture, above
Hasse diagram, principle – Helmut Hasse
Hasse–Minkowski theorem – Helmut Hasse and Hermann Minkowski
Hausdorff dimension – Felix Hausdorff
Hawthorne effect – from the Hawthorne Works factory (where experiments were carried out 1924–1932)
Hayashi track – Chushiro Hayashi
Hayflick limit – Leonard Hayflick
Hawking radiation (a.k.a. Bekenstein–Hawking radiation) – Stephen Hawking (and Jacob Bekenstein)
Heaviside layer – see Kennelly–Heaviside layer
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 map – Michel Hénon
Hénon-Heiles equation, potential – Michel Hénon and Carl Heiles
Henrietta's law – see Leavitt's law, below
Henyey track – Louis G. Henyey
Herbig Ae/Be star – George Herbig
Herbig–Haro object – George Herbig and Guillermo Haro
Herbrand base, interpretation, structure, universe, and Herbrand's theorem – Jacques Herbrand
Herschel effect – Sir John Herschel
Hertz effect – Heinrich Rudolf Hertz
Hertzsprung–Russell diagram – Ejnar Hertzsprung and Henry Norris Russell
Hess afterimage – Carl von Hess
Hess diagram – R. Hess
Heusler alloy – Fritz Heusler
Heyting algebra, arithmetic – Arend Heyting
Hick's law, a.k.a. Hick–Hyman law – William Edmund Hick and Ray Hyman
Higgs boson, field – Peter 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
Hofstadter's butterfly, law – Douglas Hofstadter
Holetschek effect – Johann Holetschek
Hopfield network – John J. Hopfield
Hořava–Lifshitz gravity – Petr Hořava and Evgeny Lifshitz
Hořava–Witten domain wall – Petr Hořava and Edward Witten
Hubbert peak – Marion King Hubbert
Hubble constant, expansion – Edwin Hubble
Hubble–Reynolds law – Edwin Hubble and John Henry Reynolds
Huchra's Lens – John Huchra
Humphreys line/series – Curtis J. Humphreys
Hund's Rules – Friedrich Hund
Hunsdiecker reaction – Heinz Hunsdiecker and Cläre Hunsdiecker
Hunt–McIlroy algorithm – James W. Hunt and Douglas McIlroy
Huygens–Fresnel principle – Christiaan Huygens and Augustin-Jean Fresnel
Imbert–Fedorov effect – Christian Imbert and Fedor Ivanovič Fedorov
Ishikawa diagram – Kaoru Ishikawa
Ising model (a.k.a. Lenz–Ising model) – Ernst Ising (and Wilhelm Lenz)
Jaccard index, similarity coefficient, distance – Paul Jaccard
Jaffe profile (or model) – Walter Jaffe
Jahn–Teller effect – Hermann Arthur Jahn and Edward Teller
Jaro–Winkler distance – Matthew A. Jaro and William E. Winkler
Jarque–Bera test – Carlos M. Jarque and Anil K. Bera
Jeans's theorem – James Hopwood Jeans
Johnson–Nyquist noise – John B. Johnson and Harry Nyquist
Jordan's rule/law – David Starr Jordan
Josephson constant, effect, junction – Brian David Josephson
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
K3 surface – Ernst Kummer, Erich Kähler, Kunihiko Kodaira
Kähler differential, manifold, metric – Erich Kähler
Kakutani's problem – see Collatz conjecture, above
Kármán vortex street – Theodore von Kármán
Karnaugh map (a.k.a. Karnaugh–Veitch map, Veitch diagram) – Maurice Karnaugh (and Edward W. Veitch)
Karush–Kuhn–Tucker conditions (a.k.a. Kuhn–Tucker conditions) – William Karush, Harold W. Kuhn and Albert W. Tucker
Kasha's rule – Michael Kasha
Kater's pendulum – Captain Henry Kater
Kaye effect – Alan Kaye
Keeling curve – Charles David Keeling
Kelvin–Joule 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
Kennicutt–Schmidt law (a.k.a. Schmidt-Kennicutt law, Schmidt law) – Maarten Schmidt and Robert Kennicutt
Kepler's laws of planetary motion – Johannes Kepler
Kerr effect – John Kerr
Kirkendall effect – Ernest Kirkendall
Kleene star (a.k.a. Kleene operator, Kleene closure) – Stephen Kleene
Klein–Gordon equation – Oskar Klein and Walter Gordon
Klein–Nishina effect – Oskar Klein and Yoshio Nishina
Knudsen cell, number – Martin Hans Christian Knudsen
Kodaira dimension, embedding theorem, vanishing theorem – Kunihiko Kodaira
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
Kolakoski sequence – William Kolakoski
Kolbe electrolysis – Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe
Kolbe–Schmitt reaction – Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe and Rudolf Schmitt
Kondo effect – June Kondo
Kornblum oxidation – Nathan Kornblum
Kornblum–DeLaMare rearrangement – Nathan Kornblum and Harold E. DeLaMare
Kossel effect – Walther Kossel
Kosterlitz–Thouless transition – see Berezinsky–Kosterlitz–Thouless transition, above
Kozai effect – Yoshihide Kozai
Krebs cycle – Hans Adolf Krebs
Kratzer potential – Adolf Kratzer
Kronecker delta – Leopold Kronecker
Kuhn–Tucker conditions – see Karush–Kuhn–Tucker conditions, above
Kuiper belt – Gerard Kuiper
Kummer's function, Kummer surface – Ernst Kummer
Kuramoto model – Yoshiki Kuramoto
Lagrangian mechanics, Lagrange points – Joseph-Louis Lagrange
Lamb shift – Willis Lamb
Lambert's cosine law (a.k.a. Lambert's emission 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
Langmuir probe – Irving Langmuir
Langmuir–Blodgett film – Irving Langmuir and Katharine B. Blodgett
Laplace vector – see Laplace–Runge–Lenz vector, below
Laplace–Runge–Lenz vector (a.k.a. LRL vector, Laplace vector, Runge–Lenz vector, Lenz vector) – Pierre-Simon de Laplace, Carl Runge and Wilhelm Lenz
Larmor frequency, precession, radius – Sir Joseph Larmor
Larsen effect – Søren Larsen (scientist)
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
Lee distance – C. Y. Lee
Lee-Smith algorithm – William C. Y. Lee and Herman L. Smith
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 vector – see Laplace–Runge–Lenz vector, above
Lenz's law – Heinrich Friedrich Emil Lenz
Leonard–Merritt mass estimator – Peter Leonard and David Merritt
Levenshtein distance, automaton – Vladimir Levenshtein
Levi-Civita symbol – Tullio Levi-Civita
Lewis–Mogridge Position – David Lewis and Martin J. H. Mogridge
Little–Parks effect – William A. Little and Roland D. Parks
Littlewood–Offord problem – John E. Littlewood and A. Cyril Offord
Locard's exchange principle – Edmond Locard
Lombard effect – Étienne Lombard
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
Loschmidt's paradox – Johann Josef Loschmidt
Lotka's law – Alfred J. Lotka
Lotka–Volterra equation – Alfred J. Lotka and Vito Volterra
Love waves – Augustus Edward Hough Love
Lucas critique – Robert Lucas, Jr.
Lyapunov's central limit theorem, equation, exponent, fractal, function, stability, test, time and tube – Aleksandr Mikhailovich Lyapunov
Lyman line, series – Theodore Lyman
Mach band/effect, number, principle – Ernst Mach
Mach–Zehnder interferometer – Ludwig Mach and Ludwig Zehnder
Madelung constant, Madelung rule, Madelung energy – Erwin Madelung
Maggi–Righi–Leduc effect – Gian Antonio Maggi, Augusto Righi and Sylvestre Anatole 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 Clerk Maxwell
Maxwell–Boltzmann distribution – James Clerk Maxwell and Ludwig Boltzmann
Maxwell–Wien bridge – James Clerk 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)
Mealy machine – George H. Mealy
Meissner effect (a.k.a. Meissner–Ochsenfeld effect) – Walther Meissner (and Robert Ochsenfeld)
Mendelian inheritance – Gregor Mendel
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
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
Mooers' law – Calvin Mooers
Moore machine – Edward Forrest Moore
Moore's law – Gordon E. Moore
Morgan unit – Thomas Hunt Morgan
Moreton wave – Gail E. Moreton
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.
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
Needleman–Wunsch algorithm – Saul B. Needleman and Christian D. Wunsch
Néel temperature – Louis Néel
Nernst equation – Walther Hermann Nernst
Nernst-Ettingshausen effect – Walther Hermann Nernst and Albert von Ettingshausen
Neupert effect – Werner Neupert
Newcomb's paradox – William Newcomb
Newton's rings, Newtonian constant, mechanics – Isaac Newton
Nichols–Tolman effect – Nichols and Richard Chace Tolman
Noether's theorem – Emmy Noether
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, Edmund Taylor Whittaker, and Vladimir Kotelnikov
Oberth effect – Hermann Oberth
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)
Ostriker–Peebles criterion – Jeremiah P. Ostriker and Jim Peebles
Ostwald's dilution law, Ostwald process – Friedrich Wilhelm Ostwald
Overhauser effect – Albert Overhauser
Ovshinsky effect – Stanford R. Ovshinsky
Paal–Knorr synthesis – Carl Paal and Ludwig Knorr
Pareto chart, distribution, efficiency, index, principle – Vilfredo Federico Damaso Pareto
Pareto–Zipf law (a.k.a. Zipf–Mandelbrot law) – Vilfredo Pareto and George K. Zipf (or Benoît Mandelbrot)
Parrondo's games, paradox – Juan Manuel Rodríguez Parrondo
Paschen curve, line, law – Friedrich Paschen
Paschen–Back effect – Friedrich Paschen and Ernst Back
Pasteur effect – Louis Pasteur
Paternò–Büchi reaction – Emanuele Paternò and George Büchi
Patzer effect – Gordon L. Patzer
Pauli exclusion principle – Wolfgang Pauli
Peano curve – Giuseppe Peano
Pearson–Anson effect – Stephen Oswald Pearson and Horatio Saint George 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
Pfeiffer effect – Paul Pfeiffer
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's spirals – Louis Poinsot
Polchinski's paradox – Joseph Polchinski
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 P. Robertson
Prandtl number – Ludwig Prandtl
Primakov effect – ? Primakov
Proteus phenomenon – Proteus (mythological god)
Prouho's membrane – Henri Prouho
Pulfrich effect – Carl P. Pulfrich
Purkinje effect/shift – Johannes Evangelista Purkinje
Pygmalion effect (a.k.a. Rosenthal effect, Observer-expectancy effect) – Pygmalion (and Robert Rosenthal)
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
Rees–Sciama effect – Martin Rees and Dennis Sciama
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-Armand Ribot
Ricardian equivalence – see Barro-Ricardo equivalence, above
Richards controller – Charles L. Richards
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 Sylvestre Anatole 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)
Rossby waves – Carl-Gustaf Arvid Rossby
Rossi–Forel scale – Michele Stefano Conte de Rossi and François-Alphonse Forel
Rössler equation – Otto Rössler
Rossmann fold – Michael Rossmann
Royer oscillator – George H. Royer
Ruelle operator, zeta function – David Ruelle
Ruelle–Perron–Frobenius theorem – David Ruelle, Oskar Perron, and Ferdinand Georg Frobenius
Ruhmkorff coil – Heinrich D. Ruhmkorff
Runge–Lenz vector – see Laplace–Runge–Lenz vector
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
Rydberg–Klein–Rees method – Johannes Rydberg, Oskar Klein, and Albert Lloyd George Rees
Sabatier or Sabattier effect – Sabat[t]ier, first name unknown
Sachs–Wolfe effect – Rainer K. Sachs and Arthur M. Wolfe
Saffir–Simpson hurricane wind 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)
St. Elmo's fire – Erasmus of Formiae
Salem number – Raphaël Salem
Sapir–Whorf hypothesis – Edward Sapir and Benjamin Whorf
Sasakian manifold, metric – Shigeo Sasaki
Say's law – Jean-Baptiste Say
Scheerer's phenomenon (Blue field entoptic phenomenon) – Richard Scheerer
Schering Bridge – Harald Schering
Schild plot, regression analysis – Heinz Otto Schild
Schmidt law, Schmidt–Kennicutt law – see Kennicutt–Schmidt law, above
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
Seiberg–Witten gauge theory – Nathan Seiberg and Edward Witten
Seiberg–Witten invariant – Nathan Seiberg and Edward Witten
Senftleben–Beenakker effect – Hermann Senftleben and Jan J. M. Beenakker
Sertoli cells – Enrico Sertoli
Serre duality – Jean-Pierre Serre
Seyfert galaxy – Carl Keenan Seyfert
Shapiro effect – Irwin Shapiro
Shimizu–Morioka attractor, equations – Tatsujiro Shimizu and Nozomi Morioka
Shubnikov–de Haas effect – Wander Johannes de Haas and Lev Vasiljevich Shubnikov
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.
Simpson's paradox (a.k.a. Yule–Simpson effect) – Edward H. Simpson (and Udny Yule)
Simroth's organs – Heinrich Rudolf Simroth
Smale's horseshoe – Stephen Smale
Smale–Rössler theorem – Stephen Smale and Otto Rössler
Smith–Waterman algorithm – Temple F. Smith and Michael S. Waterman
Snell's law – Willebrord van Roijen Snell
Soloviev tsunami intensity scale – Sergey L. Soloviev
Sommerfeld–Kossel displacement law – Arnold Sommerfeld and Walther Kossel
Sørensen similarity index, similarity coefficient – Thorvald Sørensen
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 – Joseph 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
Stueckelberg 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
Syracuse problem – see Collatz conjecture, above
Tait–Bryan angles (a.k.a. Cardan angles, nautical angles) – Peter Guthrie Tait and George H. Bryan
Talbot effect – William Henry Fox Talbot
Taylor cone – Geoffrey Ingram Taylor
Teller–Ulam design – Edward Teller and Stanislaw Ulam
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
Thwaites conjecture – see Collatz conjecture, above
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
Ulam conjecture – see Collatz conjecture
Ulam's packing conjecture – Stanislaw Ulam
Unruh effect – William G. Unruh
Vackář oscillator (a.k.a. Tesla oscillator) – Jirí Vackář (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 Stockum cylinder, dust – Willem Jacob van Stockum
Vavilovian mimicry – Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov
Veblen effect – Thorstein Veblen
Veitch diagram – see Karnaugh map, above
Venturi effect – Giovanni Battista Venturi
Venn diagram – John Venn
Vierordt's law – Karl von Vierordt
Vogt-Russell theorem – Heinrich Vogt and Henry Norris Russell
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
Von Zeipel theorem – Edvard Hugo von Zeipel
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 – Léon 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)
Weber–Fechner law (Weber's law, Fechner's law) – Ernst Heinrich Weber and Gustav Theodor Fechner
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
Wess–Zumino–Witten model – Julius Wess, Bruno Zumino and Edward Witten
Wess–Zumino model – Julius Wess, Bruno Zumino
Westermarck effect - Edvard Westermarck
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 – Edmund Taylor Whittaker
Whittaker–Shannon interpolation formula – Edmund Taylor Whittaker, John Macnaghten Whittaker, Claude Shannon
Widrow–Hoff rule – Bernard Widrow and Ted Hoff
Wiedemann–Franz law – Gustav Wiedemann and Rudolf Franz
Wiegand effect – John R. Wiegand
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
Witten index – Edward Witten
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
Yarkovsky effect – Ivan Osipovich Yarkovsky
YORP effect – Ivan Osipovich Yarkovsky, John A. O'Keefe, Vladimir Vyacheslavovich Radzievskii, and Stephen J. Paddack
Young diagram (a.k.a. Ferrers diagram), Young tableau – Alfred Young
Young's modulus – Thomas Young
Yule–Simpson effect (a.k.a. Simpson's paradox) – Edward H. Simpson and Udny Yule
Zeeman effect – Pieter Zeeman
Zeigarnik effect - Bluma Zeigarnik
Zener effect – Clarence Melvin Zener
Zeno effect – Zeno of Elea
Zipf's law – George K. Zipf
Zipf–Mandelbrot law (a.k.a. Pareto–Zipf law) – George K. Zipf and Benoît Mandelbrot (or Vilfredo Pareto)
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