List of scientists whose names are used in physical constants

Some of the constants used in science are named after scientists. Below is the list of the scientists whose names are used in physical constants.

List of the scientists and the physical constants Name of the scientist Isaac Asimov: Asimov's Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology Pan Reference Books, London, 1972, Life NationalityName of the constantIsaac Newton1643–1727BritishNewtonian constant of gravitationLeonhard Euler1707–1783SwissEuler's numberCharles-Augustin de Coulomb1736–1806FrenchCoulomb constantAmedeo Avogadro1776–1856ItalianAvogadro constantCarl Friedrich Gauss1777–1855GermanGaussian gravitational constantMichael Faraday 1791–1867BritishFaraday constantHenri Victor Regnault1810–1878FrenchRegnault constantJohann Josef Loschmidt1821–1895AustrianLoschmidt constantÉmile Verdet1824–1866FrenchVerdet constantJohann Jakob Balmer1825–1898SwissBalmer's constantLudvig Lorenz1829–1891DanishLorenz numberJosef Stefan1835–1893Slovene/AustrianStefan's constantLudwig Boltzmann1844–1906AustrianBoltzmann constant, Stefan–Boltzmann constantJohannes Rydberg1854–1919SwedishRydberg constantJ. J. Thomson1856–1940BritishThomson cross section Max Planck1858–1947GermanPlanck constantPierre Curie1859–1906FrenchCurie constantWilhelm Wien1864–1928GermanWien's constantArnold Sommerfeld1868–1951GermanSommerfeld constantOwen Willans Richardson1879–1959BritishRichardson constantOtto Sackur1880–1914GermanSackur–Tetrode constantErwin Madelung1881–1972GermanMadelung constantNiels Bohr1885–1962DanishBohr magneton, Bohr radiusEdwin Hubble1889–1953AmericanHubble constantHugo Tetrode 1895–1931DutchSackur–Tetrode constantDouglas Hartree1897–1958BritishHartree energy Enrico Fermi1901–1954Italian/AmericanFermi coupling constantRoger Apéry 1916–1994Greek/FrenchApéry's constant Günter Sauerbrey1933-2003GermanSauerbrey constantSteven Weinberg1933-2021AmericanWeinberg angleBrian Josephson1940–BritishJosephson constantKlaus von Klitzing1943–Germanvon Klitzing constant

See also List of scientists whose names are used as units List of chemical elements named after people Unit of measurement

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