This is a list of physical and mathematical constants named after people.

Eponymous constants and their influence on scientific citations have been discussed in the literature.

  • Apéry's constant – Roger Apéry
  • Archimedes' constant (, pi) – Archimedes
  • Avogadro constant – Amedeo Avogadro
  • Balmer's constant – Johann Jakob Balmer
  • Belphegor's prime – Belphegor (demon)
  • Bohr magneton – Niels Bohr
  • Bohr radius – Niels Bohr
  • Boltzmann constant – Ludwig Boltzmann
  • Brun's constant – Viggo Brun
  • Cabibbo angle – Nicola Cabibbo
  • Chaitin's constant – Gregory Chaitin
  • Champernowne constant – D. G. Champernowne
  • Chandrasekhar limit – Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
  • Copeland–Erdős constant – Paul Erdős and Peter Borwein
  • Eddington number – Arthur Stanley Eddington
  • Dunbar's number – Robin Dunbar
  • Embree–Trefethen constant
  • Erdős–Borwein constant
  • Euler–Mascheroni constant (<math>\gamma</math>) – Leonhard Euler and Lorenzo Mascheroni
  • Euler's number (<math>e</math>) – Leonhard Euler
  • Faraday constant – Michael Faraday
  • Feigenbaum constants – Mitchell Feigenbaum
  • Fermi coupling constant – Enrico Fermi
  • Gauss's constant – Carl Friedrich Gauss
  • Graham's number – Ronald Graham
  • Hartree energy – Douglas Hartree
  • Hubble constant – Edwin Hubble
  • Josephson constant – Brian David Josephson
  • Kaprekar's constant – D. R. Kaprekar
  • Kerr constant – John Kerr
  • Khinchin's constant – Aleksandr Khinchin
  • Landau–Ramanujan constant – Edmund Landau and Srinivasa Ramanujan
  • Legendre's constant (one, 1) – Adrien-Marie Legendre
  • Loschmidt constant – Johann Josef Loschmidt
  • Ludolphsche Zahl – Ludolph van Ceulen
  • Mean of Phidias (golden ratio, <math>\phi</math>, phi) – Phidias
  • Meissel–Mertens constant
  • Moser's number
  • Newtonian constant of gravitation (gravitational constant, <math>G</math>) – Sir Isaac Newton
  • Planck constant (<math>h</math>) – Max Planck

:* Reduced Planck constant or Dirac constant (<math>h</math>-bar, ) – Max Planck, Paul Dirac

  • Ramanujan–Soldner constant – Srinivasa Ramanujan and Johann Georg von Soldner
  • Richardson constant – Owen Willans Richardson
  • Rayo's number – Agustin Rayo
  • Rydberg constant – Johannes Rydberg
  • Sommerfeld constant – Arnold Sommerfeld
  • Sagan's number – Carl Sagan
  • Sackur–Tetrode constant – Otto Sackur and Hugo Tetrode
  • Sierpiński's constant – Wacław Sierpiński
  • Skewes' number – Stanley Skewes
  • Stefan–Boltzmann constant – Jožef Stefan and Ludwig Boltzmann
  • Theodorus' constant (Square root of 3| ≅ ±1.732050807568877...) – Theodorus of Cyrene
  • Tupper's number – Jeff Tupper
  • Viswanath's constant – Divakar Viswanath
  • von Klitzing constant – Klaus von Klitzing
  • Wien displacement law constant – Wilhelm Wien

See also

  • List of eponymous laws, for a list of laws named after people
  • List of scientific laws named after people
  • List of scientists whose names are used in physical constants

Notes and references