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

LawPerson(s) Named After
Amdahl's lawGene Amdahl
Ampère's lawAndré-Marie Ampère
Archie's lawGus Archie
Avogadro's lawAmedeo Avogadro
Beer-Lambert lawAugust Beer, Johann Heinrich Lambert
Bernoulli's principle
Bernoulli's equation		Daniel Bernoulli
Biot-Savart lawJean Baptiste Biot and Felix Savart
Boyle's lawRobert Boyle
Bradford's lawSamuel C. Bradford
Buys-Ballot's lawC.H.D. Buys Ballot
Church-Turing thesisAlonzo Church and Alan Turing
Coulomb's lawCharles Augustin de Coulomb
Law of Charles and Gay-Lussac (frequently called Charles's Law)Jacques Charles and Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac
Dalton's law of partial pressureJohn Dalton
De Morgan's lawAugustus De Morgan
Einstein's General Theory of RelativityAlbert Einstein
Faraday's law of induction
Faraday's law of electrolysis		Michael Faraday
Fick's law of diffusionAdolf Fick
Fitts' lawPaul Fitts
Fourier's lawJean Baptiste Joseph Fourier
Gauss' lawJohann Carl Friedrich Gauss
Gibbs free energyWillard Gibbs
Gödel's incompleteness theoremKurt Gödel
Graham's lawThomas Graham
Henry's lawWilliam Henry
Hess's lawGermain Henri Hess
Hooke's lawRobert Hooke
Hubble's lawEdwin Hubble
Joule's lawJames Joule
Kepler's laws of planetary motionJohannes Kepler
Kirchhoff's lawsGustav Kirchhoff
Le Chatelier's principleHenri Louis le Chatelier
Metcalfe's lawRobert Metcalfe
Minkowski's theoremHermann Minkowski
Moore's lawGordon Moore
Nash embedding theoremJohn Forbes Nash
Newton's law of cooling
Newton's law of gravitation
Newton's laws of motion		Isaac Newton
Noether's theoremEmmy Noether
Occam's RazorWilliam of Ockham
Ohm's lawGeorg Ohm
Pascal's theoremBlaise Pascal
Pareto distribution
Pareto efficiency
Pareto index
Pareto principle		Vilfredo Pareto
Pauli exclusion principleWolfgang Pauli
Peano axiomsGiuseppe Peano
Planck's law of black body radiationMax Planck
Poiseuille's lawJean Louis Marie Poiseuille
Raoult's lawFrancois Marie Raoult
Riemann zeta function
Riemann hypothesis
Riemann integral
Riemann lemma
Riemannian manifold
Riemann sphere
Riemann theta function		Bernhard Riemann
Snell's lawWillebrord van Roijen Snell
Stefan-Boltzmann lawJožef Stefan and Ludwig Boltzmann
Stokes' lawGeorge Gabriel Stokes
Titius-Bode lawJohann Daniel Titius and Johann Elert Bode
Wien's lawWilhelm Wien
Zipf's lawGeorge Kingsley Zipf

See also

Science | Eponyms | Eponymous laws

 

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