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.

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! Law !! Field !! Person(s) Named After

| Abel's theorem || Calculus || Niels Henrik Abel

|Ariadne's thread

|Computer science

|Ariadne

| Amdahl's law || Computer science || Gene Amdahl

| Ampère's circuital law || Physics || André-Marie Ampère

| Archie's law || Geology || Gus Archie

| Archimedes' principle Axiom of Archimedes|| Physics Analysis|| Archimedes

| Arrhenius equation || Chemical kinetics || Svante Arrhenius

| Avogadro's law || Thermodynamics || Amedeo Avogadro

| Basquin's Law of Fatigue || Materical 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 principle Bernoulli'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 Boyle

|Bragg's Law

|Physics

|William Lawrence Bragg, William Henry Bragg

| Bradford's law || Computer science || Samuel C. Bradford

|Bruun Rule

|Earth science

|Per 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 theorem Clifford'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 equation Dirac delta function Dirac comb Dirac spinor Dirac 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 relativity Einstein'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 induction Faraday's law of electrolysis || Electromagnetism Chemistry || Michael Faraday

| Faxén's law || Fluid dynamics || Hilding Faxén

| Fermat's principle Fermat's Last Theorem Fermat's little theorem || Optics Number theory Number theory || Pierre de Fermat

| Fermi paradox Fermi's golden rule Fermi acceleration Fermi hole Fermionic field Fermi 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 law Gauss's law for magnetism Gauss's principle of least constraint Gauss's digamma theorem Gauss's hypergeometric theorem Gaussian 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 indices Haüy'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 theorem Hilbert's axioms Hilbert function Hilbert's irreducibility theorem Hilbert's syzygy theorem Hilbert's Theorem 90 Hilbert's theorem || Mathematics || David Hilbert

| Hohenberg–Kohn theorem || Quantum mechanics || Pierre Hohenberg and Walter Kohn

| Helmholtz's theorems Helmholtz theorem Helmholtz free energy Helmholtz decomposition Helmholtz equation Helmholtz resonance|| Thermodynamics Physics || 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 Kopp

|Larmor formula

|Physics

|Joseph Larmor

| Leidenfrost effect || Physics || Johann Gottlob Leidenfrost

| Lagrangian point Lagrange reversion theorem Lagrange polynomial Lagrange's four-square theorem Lagrange's theorem Lagrange's theorem (group theory) Lagrange invariant Lagrange 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 transform Laplace's equation Laplace operator Laplace distribution Laplace invariant Laplace expansion Laplace principle Laplace limit  See also: List of things named after Pierre-Simon Laplace|| Mathematics Physics Probability Theory Statistical 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 principle Mach 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 Maxwell

|McCulloch's Iron Laws of Conferences

|Education

|Alistair 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 || Crystallography Condensed matter physics || Eilhard Mitscherlich

| Moore's law || Computing || Gordon Moore

| Nash embedding theorem Nash equilibrium|| Topology Game Theory || John Forbes Nash

| Nernst equation || Electrochemistry || Walther Nernst

| Newton's law of cooling Newton's law of universal gravitation Newton's laws of motion  See also: List of things named after Isaac Newton || Thermodynamics Astrophysics Mechanics || 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 distribution Pareto efficiency Pareto index Pareto principle || Economics || Vilfredo Pareto

| Pascal's law Pascal's theorem || Physics Geometry || 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 theorem Poincaré 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 function Riemann hypothesis Riemann integral Riemann lemma Riemannian manifold Riemann sphere Riemann 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 theorem Tarski'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 Diderik van der Waals

| Vlasov equation || Plasma physics || Anatoly Vlasov

| Voce's law || Physics || E. Voce

| Von Neumann bicommutant theorem Von Neumann entropy von Neumann paradox Von Neumann ergodic theorem Von Neumann universe Von Neumann neighborhood Von Neumann's trace inequality  See also: List of things named after John von Neumann || Mathematics, Quantum mechanics || John von Neumann

| Weinberg–Witten theorem || Quantum Gravity || Steven Weinberg and Edward Witten

| Weyl character formula  See also: List of things named after Hermann Weyl || Mathematics || Hermann Weyl

| Wien's law || Physics || Wilhelm Wien

| Wiener–Khinchin theorem || Mathematics || Norbert Wiener and Aleksandr Khinchin

| Young–Laplace equation || Fluid dynamics || Thomas Young and Pierre-Simon Laplace

| Zener–Hollomon law || Physics || Clarence Zener and John Herbert Hollomon

| Zipf's law || Linguistics || George Kingsley Zipf