List of scientific laws named after people

This is a list of scientific laws named after people (eponymous laws). For other lists of eponyms, see eponym.

Law Field Person(s) Named After Abel's theorem Calculus Niels Henrik AbelAriadne's threadComputer scienceAriadne Amdahl's law Computer science Gene Amdahl Ampère's circuital law Physics André-Marie Ampère Archie's law Geology Gus Archie Archimedes' principleAxiom of Archimedes PhysicsAnalysis Archimedes Arrhenius equation Chemical kinetics Svante Arrhenius Avogadro's law Thermodynamics Amedeo Avogadro Basquin's Law of Fatigue Material science O. H. Basquin Bell's theorem Quantum mechanics John Stewart Bell Benford's law Mathematics Frank Benford Beer–Lambert law Optics August Beer, Johann Heinrich Lambert Bernoulli's principleBernoulli's equation Physical sciences Daniel Bernoulli Biot–Savart law Electromagnetics, fluid dynamics Jean Baptiste Biot and Félix Savart Birch's law Geophysics Francis Birch Bogoliubov–Born–Green–Kirkwood–Yvon hierarchy Physics Nikolay Bogoliubov, Max Born, Herbert Green, John Kirkwood, and J. Yvon Bogoliubov transformation Quantum mechanics Nikolay Bogoliubov Boltzmann equation Thermodynamics Ludwig Boltzmann Born's law Quantum mechanics Max Born Boyle's law Thermodynamics Robert BoyleBragg's LawPhysicsWilliam Lawrence Bragg, William Henry Bragg Bradford's law Computer science Samuel C. BradfordBruun RuleEarth sciencePer Bruun Buys Ballot's law Meteorology C.H.D. Buys Ballot Byerlee's law Geophysics James Byerlee Carnot's theorem Thermodynamics Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot Cauchy's integral formula Cauchy–Riemann equations  See also: List of things named after Augustin-Louis Cauchy Complex analysis Augustin Louis Cauchy Augustin Louis Cauchy and Bernhard Riemann Cayley–Hamilton theorem Linear algebra Arthur Cayley and William Hamilton Charles's law Thermodynamics Jacques Charles Chandrasekhar limit Astrophysics Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar Church–Turing thesis Computer science Alonzo Church and Alan Turing Coulomb's law Physics Charles Augustin de Coulomb Law of Charles and Gay-Lussac (frequently called Charles's law) Thermodynamics Jacques Charles and Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac Clifford's theoremClifford's circle theorems Algebraic geometry, Geometry William Kingdon Clifford Curie's law Physics Pierre Curie Curie–Weiss law Physics Pierre Curie and Pierre-Ernest Weiss D'Alembert's paradox D'Alembert's principle Fluid dynamics, Physics Jean le Rond d'Alembert Dalton's law of partial pressure Thermodynamics John Dalton Darcy's law Fluid mechanics Henry Darcy De Bruijn–Erdős theorem Mathematics Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn and Paul Erdős De Morgan's law Logic Augustus De Morgan Dermott's law Celestial mechanics Stanley Dermott Descartes's theorem Geometry René Descartes Dirac equationDirac delta functionDirac combDirac spinorDirac operator  See also: List of things named after Paul Dirac Mathematics, Physics Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac Drake equation Cosmology Frank Drake Doppler effect Physics Christian Doppler Ehrenfest's theorem Quantum mechanics Paul Ehrenfest Einstein's general theory of relativityEinstein's special theory of relativity  See also: List of things named after Albert Einstein Physics Albert Einstein El-Sayed rule Physical chemistry Mostafa El-Sayed Erdős–Anning theorem  See also: List of things named after Paul Erdős Mathematics Paul Erdős and Norman H. Anning Erdős–Beck theorem Mathematics Paul Erdős and József Beck Erdős–Gallai theorem Mathematics Paul Erdős and Tibor Gallai Erdős–Kac theorem Mathematics Paul Erdős and Mark Kac Erdős–Ko–Rado theorem Mathematics Paul Erdős, Ke Zhao, and Richard Rado Erdős–Nagy theorem Mathematics Paul Erdős and Béla Szőkefalvi-Nagy Erdős–Rado theorem Mathematics Paul Erdős and Richard Rado Erdős–Stone theorem Mathematics Paul Erdős and Arthur Harold Stone Erdős–Szekeres theorem Mathematics Paul Erdős and George Szekeres Erdős–Szemerédi theorem Mathematics Paul Erdős and Endre Szemerédi Euclid's theorem Number theory Euclid Euler's theorem See also: List of things named after Leonhard Euler Number theory Leonhard Euler Faraday's law of inductionFaraday's law of electrolysis ElectromagnetismChemistry Michael Faraday Faxén's law Fluid dynamics Hilding Faxén Fermat's principleFermat's Last TheoremFermat's little theorem OpticsNumber theoryNumber theory Pierre de Fermat Fermi paradoxFermi's golden ruleFermi accelerationFermi holeFermionic fieldFermi level  See also: List of things named after Enrico Fermi Cosmology, Physics Enrico Fermi Fick's law of diffusion Thermodynamics Adolf Fick Fitts's law Ergonomics Paul Fitts Fourier's law Thermodynamics Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier Gauss's lawGauss's law for magnetismGauss's principle of least constraintGauss's digamma theoremGauss's hypergeometric theoremGaussian function  See also: List of things named after Carl Friedrich Gauss Mathematics, Physics Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss Gay-Lussac's law Chemistry Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac Gibbs–Helmholtz equation Thermodynamics Josiah Willard Gibbs, Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz Gödel's incompleteness theorems Mathematics Kurt Gödel Graham's law Thermodynamics Thomas Graham Green's law Fluid dynamics George Green Grimm's law Linguistics Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm Gustafson's law Computer science John L. Gustafson Heisenberg's uncertainty principle Theoretical physics Werner Heisenberg Haüy's law of rational indicesHaüy's law of symmetry Crystallography René Just Haüy Heaps' law Linguistics Harold Stanley Heaps Hellmann–Feynman theorem Physics Hans Hellmann, Richard Feynman Henry's law Thermodynamics William Henry Hertz observations Electromagnetism Heinrich Hertz Hess's law Thermodynamics Germain Henri Hess Hilbert's basis theoremHilbert's axiomsHilbert functionHilbert's irreducibility theoremHilbert's syzygy theoremHilbert's Theorem 90Hilbert's theorem Mathematics David Hilbert Hohenberg–Kohn theorem Quantum mechanics Pierre Hohenberg and Walter Kohn Helmholtz's theoremsHelmholtz theoremHelmholtz free energyHelmholtz decompositionHelmholtz equationHelmholtz resonance ThermodynamicsPhysics Hermann von Helmholtz Hollomon's law Physics John Herbert Hollomon Hooke's law Physics Robert Hooke Hopkinson's law Electromagnetism John Hopkinson Hubble's law Cosmology Edwin Hubble Hund's rules Atomic physics Friedrich Hund Huygens–Fresnel principle Optics Christiaan Huygens and Augustin-Jean Fresnel Joule's laws Physics James Joule Jurin's law Physics James Jurin Kasha's rule Photochemistry Michael Kasha Kepler's laws of planetary motion Astrophysics Johannes Kepler Kirchhoff's laws Electronics, thermodynamics Gustav Kirchhoff Kopp's law Thermodynamics Hermann Franz Moritz KoppLarmor formulaPhysicsJoseph Larmor Leidenfrost effect Physics Johann Gottlob Leidenfrost Lagrangian pointLagrange reversion theoremLagrange polynomialLagrange's four-square theoremLagrange's theoremLagrange's theorem (group theory)Lagrange invariantLagrange multiplier See also: List of things named after Joseph-Louis Lagrange Mathematics, Astrophysics Joseph-Louis Lagrange Lambert's cosine law Physics Johann Heinrich Lambert Lamm equation Chemistry, Biophysics Ole Lamm Langmuir equation Surface Chemistry Irving Langmuir Laplace transformLaplace's equationLaplace operatorLaplace distributionLaplace invariantLaplace expansionLaplace principleLaplace limit  See also: List of things named after Pierre-Simon Laplace MathematicsPhysicsProbability TheoryStatistical mechanics Pierre-Simon Laplace Le Chatelier's principle Chemistry Henri Louis le Chatelier Leibniz's law Ontology Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Lenz's law Physics Heinrich Lenz Leonard–Merritt mass estimator Astrophysics Peter Leonard, David Merritt l'Hôpital's rule Mathematics Guillaume de l'Hôpital Llinás's law Neuroscience Rodolfo Llinás Ludwik's law Physics P. Ludwik Mach principleMach reflection Physics Ernst Mach Marconi's law Radio technology Guglielmo Marconi Markovnikov's rule Organic chemistry Vladimir Markovnikov Maupertuis's principle Mathematics Pierre Louis Maupertuis Maxwell's equations Maxwell relations Electrodynamics Thermodynamics James Clerk MaxwellMcCulloch's Iron Laws of ConferencesEducationAlistair McCulloch Mendelian inheritance/Mendel's laws Genetics Gregor Mendel Metcalfe's law Network theory Robert Metcalfe Mikheyev–Smirnov–Wolfenstein effect Particle physics Stanislav Mikheyev, Alexei Smirnov, and Lincoln Wolfenstein Milner–Rado paradox Mathematical logic Eric Charles Milner and Richard Rado Minkowski's theorem Number theory Hermann Minkowski Mitscherlich's law CrystallographyCondensed matter physics Eilhard Mitscherlich Moore's law Computing Gordon Moore Nash embedding theoremNash equilibrium TopologyGame Theory John Forbes Nash Nernst equation Electrochemistry Walther Nernst Newton's law of coolingNewton's law of universal gravitationNewton's laws of motion  See also: List of things named after Isaac Newton ThermodynamicsAstrophysicsMechanics Isaac Newton Niven's theorem Mathematics Ivan Niven Noether's theorem Theoretical physics Emmy Noether Nyquist–Shannon sampling theorem Information theory Harry Nyquist, Claude Elwood Shannon Occam's razor Philosophy of science William of Ockham Ohm's law Electronics Georg Ohm Osipkov–Merritt model Astrophysics Leonid Osipkov, David Merritt Ostwald dilution law Physical chemistry Wilhelm Ostwald Paley–Wiener theorem Mathematics Raymond Paley and Norbert Wiener Pareto distributionPareto efficiencyPareto indexPareto principle Economics Vilfredo Pareto Pascal's lawPascal's theorem PhysicsGeometry Blaise Pascal Pauli exclusion principle Quantum mechanics Wolfgang Pauli Peano axioms Foundational mathematics Giuseppe Peano Planck's law Electromagnetism Max Planck Poincaré–Bendixson theorem Mathematics Henri Poincaré and Ivar Otto Bendixson Poincaré–Birkhoff–Witt theorem Mathematics Henri Poincaré, George David Birkhoff, and Ernst Witt Poincaré–Hopf theorem Mathematics Henri Poincaré and Heinz Hopf Poincaré recurrence theoremPoincaré conjecture Poincaré lemma  See also: List of things named after Henri Poincaré Mathematics Henri Poincaré Poiseuille's law Fluidics Jean Léonard Marie Poiseuille Poisson distribution Poisson's equation  See also: List of things named after Siméon Denis Poisson Statistics Calculus Siméon Denis Poisson Price's theorem Natural selection George R. Price Ptolemy's theorem Geometry Ptolemy Pythagorean theorem Geometry Pythagoras Raman scattering Physics Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman Rado's theorem Discrete mathematics Richard Rado Ramanujan–Nagell equation See also: List of things named after Srinivasa Ramanujan Mathematics Srinivasa Ramanujan and Trygve Nagell Raoult's law Physical chemistry François-Marie Raoult Riemann zeta functionRiemann hypothesisRiemann integralRiemann lemmaRiemannian manifoldRiemann sphereRiemann theta function  See also: List of things named after Bernhard Riemann Number theory, analysis, geometry Bernhard Riemann Rolle's theorem Differential calculus Michel Rolle Saha ionization equation Plasma physics Meghnad Saha Schrödinger equation Physics Erwin Schrödinger Seebeck effect Physics, Electronincs Thomas Johann Seebeck Sérsic's law Astrophysics José Luis Sérsic Snell's law Optics Willebrord van Roijen Snell Sokolov–Ternov effect Particle Physics Arsenij Sokolov and Igor Ternov Sommerfeld–Kossel displacement law Spectroscopy Arnold Sommerfeld and Walther Kossel Stefan–Boltzmann law Thermodynamics Jožef Stefan and Ludwig Boltzmann Steno's law Mineralogy, crystallography Nicolas Steno Stokes' law Fluid mechanics George Gabriel Stokes Stoletov's law Photoelectric effect Aleksandr Stoletov Swift's law Physics H. W. Swift Tarski's undefinability theoremTarski's axioms  See also: List of things named after Alfred Tarski Mathematical logic, Geometry Alfred Tarski Thales's theorem Geometry Thales Titius–Bode law Astrophysics Johann Daniel Titius and Johann Elert Bode Torricelli's law Physics Evangelista Torricelli Umov effect Physics Nikolay Umov Van der Waals equation Chemistry Johannes Did