This is a list of waves named after people (eponymous waves). Wave Field Person(s) named after Alfvén wave Magnetohydrodynamics Hannes Alfvén Bloch wave Solid state physics, condensed matter physics Felix Bloch Boriswave Immigration Boris Johnson de Broglie wave Quantum physics Louis de Broglie Elliott wave Finance Ralph Nelson Elliott Faraday wave Water waves Michael Faraday Gerstner wave Water waves, oceanography František Josef Gerstner Kelvin wave Oceanography, atmospheric dynamics Lord Kelvin Lamb wave Acoustics, elastic waves Horace Lamb Mexican wave Audience waves Mexicans Langmuir wave Plasma physics Irving Langmuir Love wave Elastodynamics, surface waves Augustus Edward Hough Love Mach wave Fluid dynamics Ernst Mach Rayleigh wave or Rayleigh–Lamb wave Surface acoustic waves, seismology Lord Rayleigh and Horace Lamb Rossby wave Meteorology, oceanography Carl-Gustaf Rossby Stokes wave Surface gravity waves, water waves George Gabriel Stokes Tollmien–Schlichting wave Stability of laminar flows Walter Tollmien and Hermann Schlichting
See also Eponym List of eponymous laws Waves Scientific phenomena named after people
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