Editing Scientific phenomena named after people

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This is a list of '''[[phenomenon|scientific phenomena]] and concepts named after people''' (eponymous phenomena). For other lists of eponyms, see [[eponym]].
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==A==
* [[Abderhalden–Fauser reaction]] – [[Emil Abderhalden]] and August Fauser (1856–1938)
* [[Abney effect]] – [[William de Wiveleslie Abney]]
* [[Abrikosov lattice]] – [[Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov]]
* [[Aharonov–Bohm effect]] – [[Yakir Aharonov]] and [[David Bohm]]
* [[Alfvén wave]] – [[Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén]]
* [[Alhazen's problem]] – [[Alhazen]]
* [[Allais effect]] – [[Maurice Allais]]
* [[Allee effect]] – [[Warder Clyde Allee]]
* [[Amdahl's law]], a.k.a. Amdahl's argument – [[Gene Amdahl]]
* [[Ampère's law]] – [[André-Marie Ampère]]
* [[Anderson–Higgs mechanism]] (a.k.a. [[Higgs mechanism]]) – [[Peter Higgs]] and [[Philip Warren Anderson]]
* [[Anderson–Darling test]] – [[Theodore Wilbur Anderson]] and [[Donald Allan Darling|Donald A. Darling]]
* [[Andreev reflection]] – [[Alexander F. Andreev]]
* [[Apgar score]] – [[Virginia Apgar]]
* [[Arago spot]] – [[Dominique François Jean Arago]]
* [[Michaelis–Arbuzov reaction]] – [[Aleksandr Erminingeldovich Arbuzov]] and [[August Karl Arnold Michaelis]]
* [[Archimedean spiral]], [[Archimedes number]] – [[Archimedes]]
* [[Argand diagram]] – [[Jean Robert Argand]]
* [[Sea urchin|Aristotle's lantern]] – [[Aristotle]]
* [[Armstrong limit]] or [[Armstrong's line]] – [[Harry George Armstrong]]
* [[Armstrong oscillator]] – [[Edwin Armstrong]]
* [[Arndt–Eistert synthesis]] – [[Fritz Arndt]] and [[Bernd Eistert]]
* [[Arndt–Schulz rule|Arndt–Schulz law/principle/rule]] – [[Rudolf Arndt]] and [[Hugo Paul Friedrich Schulz]]
* [[Arrhenius equation]] – [[Svante August Arrhenius]]
* [[Ashkin–Teller model]] (a.k.a. [[Potts model]]) – [[Julius Ashkin]] and [[Edward Teller]]
* [[Asinger reaction]] – [[Friedrich Asinger]]
* [[Auger effect]] (a.k.a. Auger-Meitner effect), [[Auger electron|electron]] – [[Pierre Victor Auger]] and [[Lise Meitner]]
* [[Autler–Townes effect]] – [[Stanley H. Autler]] and [[Charles H. Townes]]<!-- Phys. Rev. 100, 703, 1955 -->
* [[Auwers synthesis]] – [[Karl von Auwers]]
* [[Avogadro's law]], [[Avogadro constant]], [[Avogadro number]] – Count [[Amedeo Avogadro|Lorenzo Romano Amedeo Carlo Avogadro di Quaregna e Cerreto]]

==B==
* [[Baeyer–Drewson indigo synthesis]] – [[Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf von Baeyer]] and [[Viggo Drewsen]]
* [[Baeyer–Villiger oxidation]] and [[Baeyer–Villiger rearrangement]] – [[Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf von Baeyer]] and [[Victor Villiger]]
* [[Babinet's principle]] – [[Jacques Babinet]]
* [[Babler oxidation|Babler–Dauben oxidation]] – [[James Babler]] and [[William Garfield Dauben]]
* [[Bagnold number]] – [[Ralph Alger Bagnold]]
* [[Baily's beads]] – [[Francis Baily]]
* [[Baker–Nathan effect]] – [[John William Baker]] and [[Wilfred S. Nathan]]
* [[Bakerian mimicry]] – [[Herbert G. Baker]]
* [[Baldwin effect (astronomy)]] – [[Jack Allen Baldwin]]<!-- see http://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/level5/Hamann/Hamann6.html -->
* [[Baldwin effect]] (Baldwinian evolution, Ontogenic evolution) – [[James Mark Baldwin]]
* [[Baldwin's rules]] – [[Jack Baldwin (chemist)|Jack Edward Baldwin]]
* [[Balmer line]], [[Balmer series|series]] – [[Johann Jakob Balmer]]
* [[Bamberger rearrangement]] – [[Eugen Bamberger]]
* [[Bamford–Stevens reaction]] – [[William Randall Bamford]] and [[Thomas Stevens Stevens]]
* [[Barkhausen effect]] – [[Heinrich Barkhausen]]
* [[Barnett effect]] – [[Samuel Jackson Barnett]]
* [[Barnum effect]] (a.k.a. [[Forer effect]]) – [[Phineas Taylor Barnum]] (and [[Bertram R. Forer]])
* [[Barton reaction]] – [[Derek Harold Richard Barton]]
* [[Barton–McCombie deoxygenation]] – [[Derek Harold Richard Barton]] and [[Stuart W. McCombie]]
* [[Baskerville effect]] – the fictional Charles Baskerville of the novel ''[[The Hound of the Baskervilles]]''
* [[Batesian mimicry]] – [[Henry Walter Bates]]
* [[Bauschinger effect]] – [[Johann Bauschinger]]
* [[Bayes's theorem]] – [[Thomas Bayes]]
* [[Baylis–Hillman reaction]] – [[Anthony B. Baylis]] and [[Melville E. D. Hillman]]
* [[Bayliss effect]] – [[William M. Bayliss]]
* [[BCS superconduction theory]] – [[John Bardeen]], [[Leon Cooper]], and [[Robert Schrieffer]]
* [[Beaufort scale]] (Beaufort wind force scale) – [[Francis Beaufort]]
* [[Beckmann rearrangement]] – [[Ernst Otto Beckmann]]
* [[Beer's law]] (a.k.a. [[Beer–Lambert law]] or [[Beer–Lambert–Bouguer law]]) – [[August Beer]] (and [[Johann Heinrich Lambert]] and [[Pierre Bouguer]])
* [[Beilstein's test]] – [[Friedrich Konrad Beilstein]]
* [[Bejan number]] – [[Adrian Bejan]]
* [[Bekenstein bound]] – [[Jacob Bekenstein]]
* [[Bélády's anomaly]] – [[László Bélády]]
* [[Bell's inequality]] – [[John Stewart Bell]]
* [[Bell number]] – [[Eric Temple Bell]]
* [[Belousov–Zhabotinskii reaction]] – [[Boris Pavlovich Belousov]] and [[Anatol Zhabotinsky|Anatol Markovich Zhabotinskii]]
* [[Bénard cell]] – [[Henri Bénard]]
* [[Bénard–Marangoni cell|Bénard–Marangoni cell/convection]] (a.k.a. Marangoni convection) – [[Henri Bénard]] and [[Carlo Marangoni]]
* [[Benedict's test]] – [[Stanley Rossiter Benedict]]
* [[Benford's law]] – [[Frank Albert Benford, Jr.]]
* [[Benioff zone]] – see [[Wadati–Benioff zone]], below
* [[Bennett pinch]] – [[Willard Harrison Bennett]]
* [[Berezinsky–Kosterlitz–Thouless transition]] – [[Vadim Berezinskii|Veniamin L. Berezinsky]], [[John M. Kosterlitz]], and [[David J. Thouless]]
* [[Bergman cyclization]] – [[Robert George Bergman]]
* [[Bergmann's rule]] – [[Carl Bergmann (anatomist)]]
* [[Bergmann–Zervas carbobenzoxy method]] – [[Max Bergmann]] and [[Leonidas Zervas]]
* [[Bernoulli effect]], [[Bernoulli's equation]], [[Bernoulli's principle|principle]] – [[Daniel Bernoulli]]
* [[Berry's phase]] – [[Michael V. Berry]]
* [[Betz limit]] – [[Albert Betz]]
* [[Bezold–Brücke shift]] (a.k.a. [[von Bezold spreading effect]]) – [[Johann Friedrich Wilhelm von Bezold]] and [[Ernst Wilhelm von Brücke]]
* [[Biefeld–Brown effect]] – [[Paul Alfred Biefeld]] and [[Thomas Townsend Brown]]
* [[Biginelli reaction]] – [[Pietro Biginelli]]
* [[Biot number]] – [[Jean-Baptiste Biot]]
* [[Biot–Savart law]] – [[Jean-Baptiste Biot]] and [[Félix Savart]]
* [[Birch reduction]] – [[Arthur John Birch]]
* [[Birkeland current]]s – [[Kristian Birkeland]]
* [[Bischler–Napieralski reaction]] – [[August Bischler]] and [[Bernard Napieralski]]
* [[Black's equation]] for electromigration – [[James R. Black (engineer)|James R. Black]] (d. 2004) of [[Motorola]]
* [[Blandford–Znajek process]] – [[Roger D. Blandford]] and [[Roman L. Znajek]]
* [[Blasius boundary layer]], flow – [[Paul Richard Heinrich Blasius]]
* [[Blazhko effect]] – [[Sergey Blazhko]]
* [[Bloch electrons]] – [[Felix Bloch]]
* [[Bloom filter]] – [[Burton Howard Bloom]]
* [[Bodenstein number]] – [[Max Bodenstein]]
* [[Bohm sheath criterion]] – [[David Bohm]]
* [[Bohr effect]] – [[Christian Bohr]]
* [[Bohr magneton]], [[Bohr model|model]], [[Bohr radius|radius]] – [[Niels Bohr]]
* [[Boltzmann constant]] – [[Ludwig Boltzmann]]
* [[Bonnor–Ebert mass]] – [[William B. Bonnor|William Bowen Bonnor]] and [[Rolf Ebert]]
* [[Borel algebra]], [[Borel measure|measure]], [[Borel set|set]], [[Borel set#Standard Borel spaces and Kuratowski theorems|space]], [[Borel summation|summation]], [[Borel's lemma]], [[Borel's paradox|paradox]] – [[Émile Borel]]
* [[Borel–Cantelli lemma]] – [[Émile Borel]] and [[Francesco Paolo Cantelli]]
* [[Borel–Carathéodory theorem]] – [[Émile Borel]] and [[Constantin Carathéodory]]
* [[Born–Haber cycle]] – [[Max Born]] and [[Fritz Haber]]
* [[Born–Oppenheimer approximation]] – [[Max Born]] and [[Robert Oppenheimer]]
* [[Borodin–Hunsdiecker reaction]] – [[Alexander Borodin]], [[Hienz Hunsdiecker]], and [[Clare Hunsdiecker]] (''née'' Dieckmann)
* [[Borrmann effect]] (a.k.a. [[Borrmann–Campbell effect]]) – [[Gerhard Borrman]] (and [[Herbert N. Campbell]])<!-- G. Borrmann, ''Über Extinktionsdiagramme von Quarz'', Physikalische Zeitschrift 42, 157–162 (1941); H. N. Campbell, J. Appl. Phys. 22, 1139 (1951) -->
* [[Bortle scale]] – [[John E. Bortle]]
* [[Bose–Einstein condensate]], [[Bose–Einstein effect|effect]], [[Bose–Einstein statistics|statistics]] – [[Satyendra Nath Bose]] and [[Albert Einstein]]
* [[Boson]] – [[Satyendra Nath Bose]]
* [[Boyer's law]] – [[Carl Benjamin Boyer]]
* [[Boyle's law]] (a.k.a. [[Boyle–Mariotte law]]) – [[Robert Boyle]] (and [[Edme Mariotte]])
* [[Brackett series|Brackett line/series]] – [[Frederick Sumner Brackett]]
* [[Bradford's law]] (of scattering) – [[Samuel C. Bradford]]
* [[Braess's paradox]] – [[Dietrich Braess]]
* [[Bragg angle]], [[Bragg's law]], [[Bragg plane]] – [[William Henry Bragg]] and his son [[William Lawrence Bragg]]
* [[Bragg diffraction]] – [[William Lawrence Bragg]]
* [[Brans–Dicke theory]] – [[Carl H. Brans]] and [[Robert H. Dicke]]
* [[Bravais lattice]] – [[Auguste Bravais]]
* [[Bravais–Miller indices]] (a.k.a. [[Miller–Bravais indices]]) – [[Auguste Bravais]] and [[William Hallowes Miller]]
* [[Brayton cycle]] – [[George B. Brayton]]
* [[Bredt's rule]] – [[Julius Bredt]]
* [[Breit–Wheeler process]] – [[Gregory Breit]] and [[John A. Wheeler]]
* [[Brewster's angle]], [[Brewster's law|law]] – [[David Brewster]]
* [[Brillouin zone]] – [[Léon Brillouin]]
* [[Brinkman number]] – [[Hendrik C. Brinkman]]
* [[Brook rearrangement]] – [[Adrian Gibbs Brook]]
* [[Brooks's law]] (of software development) – [[Frederick Phillips Brooks, Jr.]]
* [[Brownian motion]] & [[Brownian noise|Brown(ian) noise]] – [[Robert Brown (Scottish botanist from Montrose)|Robert Brown]]
* [[Bucherer reaction]] – [[Hans Theodor Bucherer]]
* [[Büchi automata]] – [[Julius Richard Büchi]]
* [[Buckingham π theorem]] – [[Edgar Buckingham]]
* [[Burali-Forti paradox]] – [[Cesare Burali-Forti]]
* [[Bürgi–Dunitz angle]] – [[Hans-Beat Bürgi]] and [[Jack David Dunitz]]

==C==
* [[Cabannes–Daure effect]] – [[Jean Cabannes]] and [[Pierre Daure]]
* [[Cadiot–Chodkiewicz coupling]], [[Cadiot–Chodkiewicz reaction|reaction]] – [[Paul Cadiot]]<!-- 1923–?, French --> and [[Wladyslav Chodkiewicz]]<!-- 1921–?, Polish-French -->
* [[Callendar effect]] – [[Guy Stewart Callendar]]
* [[Callippic cycle]] – [[Callippus of Cyzicus]]
* [[Calvin cycle]] (a.k.a. [[Calvin–Benson cycle]]) – [[Melvin Calvin]] (and [[Andy Benson]])
* [[Cannizzaro reaction]] – [[Stanislao Cannizzaro]]
* [[Cardan angles]] (a.k.a. [[Tait–Bryan angles]]) – [[Gerolamo Cardano]]
* [[Carnot cycle]], [[Carnot number|number]] – [[Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot]]
* [[Carpenter effect]] (a.k.a. [[Ideomotor effect]]) – [[William Benjamin Carpenter]]
* [[Cartan–Kähler theorem]] – [[Élie Cartan]], [[Erich Kähler]]
* [[Casimir effect]] – [[Hendrik Casimir]]
* [[Catalan's conjecture]] (a.k.a. [[Mihăilescu's theorem]]), [[Catalan number]]s – [[Eugène Charles Catalan]]
* [[Cauchy number]] (a.k.a. [[Hooke number]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://glossary.ametsoc.org/wiki/Cauchy_number|title=Cauchy number, ametsoc.org}}</ref> – [[Augustin-Louis Cauchy]]
* [[Cauchy–Kovalevskaya theorem]] – [[Augustin-Louis Cauchy]], [[Sofia Kovalevskaya]]
* [[Elliptic filter|Cauer filter]] – [[Wilhelm Cauer]]
* [[Chandler wobble]] – [[Seth Carlo Chandler]]
* [[Chandrasekhar limit]], [[Chandrasekhar number|number]] – [[Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar]]
* [[Chang–Refsdal lens]] – [[Kyongae Chang]] and [[Sjur Refsdal]]
* [[Chaplygin gas]] – [[Sergey Chaplygin|Sergey Alexeyevich Chaplygin]]
* [[Charles's law]] – [[Jacques Charles]]
* [[Chebyshev distance]], [[Chebyshev equation|equation]], [[Chebyshev filter|filter]], [[Chebyshev linkage|linkage]], [[Chebyshev polynomials|polynomials]] – [[Pafnuty Chebyshev]]
* [[Chebyshev's inequality]] (a.k.a. [[Bienaymé–Chebyshev inequality]]) – [[Pafnuty Chebyshev]] (and [[Irénée-Jules Bienaymé]])
* [[Cherenkov radiation]] (a.k.a. Cherenkov–Vavilov radiation) – [[Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov]] (and [[Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov]])
* [[Chichibabin reaction]] – [[Alexei Yevgenievich Chichibabin]]
* [[Christiansen effect]] – [[Christian Christiansen (physicist)|Christian Christiansen]]
* [[Christoffel symbol]] – [[Elwin Bruno Christoffel]]
* [[Christofilos effect]] – [[Nicholas Christofilos]]
* [[Chugaev elimination|Chugaev elimination/reaction]], [[Chugaev reagent|reagent]] – [[Lev Aleksandrovich Chugaev]]
* [[Chwolson ring]] or [[Chwolson–Einstein ring]] – [[Orest Khvolson]] (and [[Albert Einstein]])
* [[Clairaut's relation]], [[Clairaut's theorem|theorem]] – [[Alexis Claude Clairaut]]
* [[Claisen condensation]], [[Claisen rearrangement|rearrangement]] – [[Rainer Ludwig Claisen]]
* [[Claisen–Schmidt condensation]] – [[Rainer Ludwig Claisen]] and [[J. Gustav Schmidt]]
* [[Clapp oscillator]] – [[James K. Clapp]]
* [[Clarke orbit]] – [[Arthur C. Clarke]]
* [[Clemmensen reduction]] – [[Erik Christian Clemmensen]]
* [[Coanda effect]] – [[Henri Coanda]]
* [[Coase theorem]] – [[Ronald Coase]]
* [[Chilton and Colburn J-factor analogy|Colburn–Chilton analogy]] (a.k.a. Colburn analogy) – [[Allan Philip Colburn]]<!-- (1904–1955) --> and [[Thomas H. Chilton]]<!-- (1899–1973) -->
* [[Coleman–Liau index]] – [[Meri Coleman]] and [[T. L. Liau]]
* [[Coleman–Mandula theorem]] – [[Sidney Coleman]] and [[Jeffrey Mandula]]
* [[Collatz conjecture]] (a.k.a. the Ulam conjecture ([[Stanisław Ulam]]), Kakutani's problem ([[Shizuo Kakutani]]), the Thwaites conjecture (Sir [[Bryan Thwaites]]), Hasse's algorithm ([[Helmut Hasse]]), the Syracuse problem) – [[Lothar Collatz]]
* [[Colpitts oscillator]] – [[Edwin H. Colpitts]]
* [[Compton effect]], [[Compton scattering|scattering]], [[Compton wavelength|wavelength]] – [[Arthur Compton]]
* [[Compton–Getting effect]] – [[Arthur Compton]] and [[Ivan A. Getting]]
* [[Conway base 13 function]] – [[John H. Conway]]
* [[Coolidge effect]] – from a joke attributed to [[John Calvin Coolidge, Jr.]]
* [[Cooper pair]] – [[Leon Cooper]]
* [[Cope elimination]], [[Cope rearrangement|rearrangement]] – [[Arthur Clay Cope]]
* [[Corey–Fuchs reaction]] – [[Elias James Corey]] and [[Philip L. Fuchs]]
* [[Corey–Kim oxidation]] – [[Elias James Corey]] and [[Choung Un Kim]]
* [[Corey–Winter olefin synthesis]] – [[Elias James Corey]] and [[Roland Arthur Edwin Winter]]
* [[Coriolis effect]] – [[Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis]]
* [[Cotton effect]] – [[Aimé Auguste Cotton]]
* [[Cotton–Mouton effect]] – [[Aimé Auguste Cotton]] and [[Henri Mouton (scientist)|Henri Mouton]]
* [[Coulomb's law]] – [[Charles Augustin de Coulomb]]
* [[Coulter counter]], [[Coulter principle|principle]] – [[Wallace Henry Coulter]]
* [[Coxeter–Dynkin diagram]] – [[Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter]] and [[Eugene Borisovich Dynkin]]
* [[Crabtree effect]] – [[Herbert Grace Crabtree]]
* [[Criegee reaction]], [[Criegee rearrangement|rearrangement]] – [[Rudolf Criegee]]
* [[Curie point]] – [[Pierre Curie]]
* [[Curry's paradox]] – [[Haskell Curry]]
* [[Curtin–Hammett principle]] – [[David Yarrow Curtin]] and [[Louis Plack Hammett]]
* [[Curtius rearrangement]] – [[Theodor Curtius]]

==D==
* [[Dakin reaction]] – [[Henry Drysdale Dakin]]
* [[Dakin–West reaction]] – [[Henry Drysdale Dakin]] and [[Randolph West]]
* [[Dalton's law]] (of partial pressures) – [[John Dalton]]
* [[Damerau–Levenshtein distance]] – [[Frederick J. Damerau]] and [[Vladimir Levenshtein]]
* [[Darboux function]] – [[Jean Gaston Darboux]]
* [[Darcy's law]] – [[Henry Darcy]]
* [[Darlington pair]] – [[Sidney Darlington]]
* [[Darwin drift]] – [[Charles Galton Darwin]]
* [[Darwin point]], [[Darwinism]] – [[Charles Darwin]]
* [[Darzens condensation]] – [[Auguste Georges Darzens]]
* [[Davies–Bouldin index]] (DBI) – [[David L. Davies]] and [[Donald W. Bouldin]]
* [[de Broglie wavelength]] – [[Louis de Broglie]]
* [[de Bruijn sequence]]s – [[Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn]]
* [[de Haas–Van Alphen effect|de Haas–van Alphen effect]] – [[Wander Johannes de Haas]] and [[Pieter M. van Alphen]]
* [[Shubnikov–de Haas effect|de Haas–Shubnikov effect]] – see [[Shubnikov–de Haas effect]], below
* [[Deborah number]] – the prophetess [[Deborah]] (Bible, Judges 5:5)
* [[Debye model]] – [[Peter Joseph William Debye]]
* [[Debye–Falkenhagen effect]] – [[Peter Joseph William Debye]] and [[Hans Falkenhagen]]
* [[Richard Dedekind]] has many topics named after him; see biography article.
* [[Delbruck scattering|Delbrück scattering]] – [[Max Ludwig Henning Delbrück]]
* [[Delépine reaction]] – [[Marcel Delépine|Stéphane Marcel Delépine]]
* [[Dellinger effect]] (a.k.a. [[Mögel–Dellinger effect]]) – [[John Howard Dellinger]] (and [[Hans Mögel]])
* [[Demjanov rearrangement]] – [[Nikolai Jakovlevich Demjanov]]
* [[Dermott's law]] – [[Stanley Dermott]]
* [[Dess–Martin oxidation]] – [[Daniel Benjamin Dess]] and [[James Cullen Martin]]
* [[DeVries solar cycle]] – See Suess solar cycle, below
* [[Dice's coefficient]] – [[Lee Raymond Dice]]<!-- Lee R. Dice (1945), ''Measures of the amount of ecologic association between species'', Ecology, No. 26, pp. 297–302 -->
* [[Dieckmann condensation]] – [[Walter Dieckmann]]
* [[Diels–Alder reaction]] – [[Otto Paul Hermann Diels]] and [[Kurt Alder]]
* [[Diophantine equation]] – [[Diophantus of Alexandria]]
* [[Dirac comb]], [[Dirac fermion|fermion]], [[Dirac spinor|spinor]], [[Dirac equation|equation]], [[Dirac delta function|delta function]], [[Dirac measure|measure]] – [[Paul Dirac]]
* [[Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet]] has dozens of formulas named after him, see [[List of things named after Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet]]
* [[Divisia index]] – [[François Divisia]]
* [[Doebner–Miller reaction]] – [[Oscar Döbner]] (Doebner) and [[Wilhelm von Miller]]
* [[Dollo's law]] – [[Louis Dollo]]
* [[Donnan effect]] (a.k.a. [[Gibbs–Donnan effect]]) – see [[Gibbs–Donnan effect]], below
* [[Doppler effect]] (a.k.a. [[Doppler–Fizeau effect]]), [[Doppler profile]] – [[Christian Doppler]] (and [[Hippolyte Fizeau]])
* [[Downs–Thomson paradox]] – [[Anthony Downs]] and [[John Michael Thomson]]
* [[Drake equation]] (a.k.a. [[Sagan equation]], [[Green Bank equation]]) – [[Frank Drake]] (or [[Carl Sagan]] or [[Green Bank, West Virginia]], home to the [[National Radio Astronomy Observatory]] (NRAO))
* [[Droste effect]] – Dutch chocolate maker [[Droste]]
* [[Drude model]] – [[Paul Drude]]
* [[Duff's device]] – [[Tom Duff]]
* [[Duffing equation]], [[Duffing map|map]] – [[Georg Duffing]]
* [[Duhamel's integral]], and [[Duhamel's principle|principle]] – [[Jean-Marie Duhamel|Jean-Marie Constant Duhamel]]
* [[Dulong–Petit law]] – [[Pierre Louis Dulong]] and [[Alexis Thérèse Petit]]
* [[Dunitz angle]] – see [[Bürgi–Dunitz angle]], above
* [[Dunning–Kruger effect]] – [[David Dunning]] and [[Justin Kruger]]
* [[Dyson–Harrop satellite]] – [[Brooks L. Harrop]] and [[Freeman Dyson]]

==E==
* [[Early effect]] – [[James M. Early]]
* [[Eddington limit]] – [[Arthur Eddington]]
* [[Edgeworth–Bowley box]] – [[Francis Ysidro Edgeworth]] and [[Arthur Lyon Bowley]]
* [[thermionic emission|Edison effect]] – [[Thomas Edison]]
* [[Edman degradation]] – [[Pehr Victor Edman]]
* [[Edward–Lemieux effect]] (a.k.a. [[Anomeric effect]]) – [[John Thomas Edward]] and [[Raymond U. Lemieux]]
* [[Eglinton reaction]] – [[Geoffrey Eglinton]]<!-- b. 1 November 1927, Welsh, b. Cardiff -->
* [[Ehrenfest paradox]] – [[Paul Ehrenfest]]
* [[Eimer's organ]] – [[Gustav Heinrich Theodor Eimer]]
* [[Einstein Cross]], [[Einstein effect (disambiguation)|effect]], [[Einstein radius|radius]], [[Einstein ring|ring]], [[Einstein shift|shift]] – [[Albert Einstein]]
* [[Einstein–Chwolson ring]] or [[Chwolson ring]] – [[Albert Einstein]] and [[Orest Khvolson]]
* [[Einstein–de Haas effect]] – [[Albert Einstein]] and [[Wander Johannes de Haas]]
* [[Einstein–Podolsky–Rosen paradox]] (a.k.a. [[EPR paradox]], [[Einstein–Podolsky–Rosen–Bohm paradox]]) – [[Albert Einstein]], [[Boris Podolsky]], [[Nathan Rosen]] (and [[David Bohm]])
* [[Ekman layer]] – [[Walfrid Ekman]]
* [[Elbs reaction]] – [[Karl Elbs]]
* [[Elliott–Halberstam conjecture]] – [[Peter D. T. A. Elliott]] and [[Heini Halberstam]]
* [[Elman network]] – [[Jeff Elman]]
* [[Elsasser number]] – [[Walter M. Elsasser]]
* [[Engel curve]] – [[Ernst Engel]]
* [[Engelbart's law]] – [[Douglas Engelbart]]
* [[Epimenides paradox]] – [[Epimenides of Knossos]]
* [[Erlenmeyer flask]], [[Erlenmeyer rule|rule]], [[Erlenmeyer synthesis|synthesis]] – [[Richard August Carl Emil Erlenmeyer]]
* [[Eschenmoser fragmentation]] – [[Albert Eschenmoser]]
* [[Eschweiler–Clarke reaction]] – [[Wilhelm Eschweiler]] and [[Hans Thacher Clarke]]
* [[Eshelby's inclusion]] – [[John D. Eshelby]]
* [[Étard reaction]] – [[Alexandre Léon Étard]]
* [[Ettingshausen effect]] – [[Albert von Ettingshausen]]
* [[List of topics named after Leonhard Euler|Euler this and that (numerous entries)]] – [[Leonhard Euler]]
* [[Evershed effect]] – [[John Evershed]]

==F==
* [[Faà di Bruno's formula]] – [[Francesco Faà di Bruno]]
* [[Faraday constant]], [[Faraday effect|effect]], [[Faraday's law of induction]], [[Faraday's law of electrolysis]] – [[Michael Faraday]]
* [[Farnsworth–Hirsch fusor]] – [[Philo T. Farnsworth]] and [[Robert L. Hirsch]]
* [[Favorskii reaction]], [[Favorskii rearrangement|rearrangement]] – [[Alexei Yevgrafovich Favorskii]]
* [[Fenton reaction]] – [[Henry John Horstman Fenton]]
* [[Fermat's principle]] – [[Pierre de Fermat]]
* [[Fermi energy]], [[Fermi paradox|paradox]], [[Fermi surface|surface]], [[Fermion]] – [[Enrico Fermi]]
* [[Fermi–Dirac statistics]] – [[Enrico Fermi]] and [[Paul Dirac]]
* [[Ferrel cell]] – [[William Ferrel]]
* [[Ferrers diagram]] (a.k.a. [[Young diagram]], [[Ferrers graph]]) – [[Norman Macleod Ferrers]]
* [[Feshbach resonance]] – [[Herman Feshbach]]
* [[Feynman diagram]] – [[Richard Feynman]]
* [[Finkelstein reaction]] – [[Hans Finkelstein]]
* [[Fischer esterification]], [[Fischer indole synthesis|indole synthesis]] – [[Emil Hermann Fischer]]
* [[Fischer–Hafner reaction]] – [[Ernst Otto Fischer]] and [[Walter Hafner]]
* [[Fischer–Tropsch process]] – [[Franz Joseph Emil Fischer]] and [[Hans Tropsch]]
* [[Fischer–Hepp rearrangement]] – [[O. W. Fischer|Otto Philipp Fischer]] and [[Eduard Hepp]]
* [[F-distribution|Fisher distribution]] – [[Ronald A. Fisher]]
* [[Fisher equation]] – [[Irving Fisher]]
* [[Fisher–Widom line]] – [[Michael E. Fisher]] and [[Benjamin Widom]]
* [[Fitts's law]] – [[Paul M. Fitts]]
* [[Flesch–Kincaid readability test]] – [[Rudolf F. Flesch]] and [[J. Peter Kincaid]]
* [[Fletcher–Munson curves]] – [[Harvey Fletcher]] and [[Wilden A. Munson]]<!-- Fletcher, H.; Raff, G.; and Parmley, F.; ''Study of the effects of different amounts of sidetone in the telephone set'', Technical Report 19412, Western Electric Company (1918) Fletcher, H.; and Munson, W. A.; J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 6:59 (1933) -->
* [[Flynn effect]] – [[Jim Flynn (academic)|Jim Flynn]]
* [[Forbush effect]] – [[Scott Forbush|Scott Ellsworth Forbush]]
* [[Forer effect]] (a.k.a. [[Barnum effect]]) – [[Bertram R. Forer]] (and [[Phineas Taylor Barnum]])
* [[Foucault pendulum]] – [[Jean Bernard Léon Foucault]]
* [[Fourier number]] – [[Joseph Fourier]]
* [[Fourier series]] – [[Joseph Fourier]]
* [[Fourier–Motzkin elimination]] – [[Joseph Fourier]] and [[Theodore Motzkin]]
* [[Franck–Condon principle]] – [[James Franck]] and [[Edward Uhler Condon]]
* [[Franssen effect]] – [[Nico Franssen]]
* [[Franz–Keldysh effect]] – [[Walter Franz]] and [[Leonid V. Keldysh]]
* [[Fraunhofer diffraction]], [[Fraunhofer lines|lines]] – [[Joseph von Fraunhofer]]
* [[Freeman law]] – [[Ken Freeman (astronomer)|Ken Freeman]]
* [[Frenkel line]] – [[Jacov Frenkel]]
* [[Fresnel zone]] – [[Augustin Fresnel]]
* [[Frey effect]] – [[Allan H. Frey]]
* [[Friedel oscillations]] – [[Jacques Friedel]]
* [[Friedel–Crafts reaction]] – [[Charles Friedel]] and [[James Mason Crafts]]
* [[Friedländer synthesis]] – [[Paul Friedlaender (chemist)|Paul Friedländer]]
* [[Friedmann–Lemaître–Robertson–Walker metric]] (a.k.a. [[Friedmann–Robertson–Walker metric]], [[Robertson–Walker metric]]) – [[Alexander Friedmann]], [[Georges Lemaître]], [[Howard P. Robertson]] and [[Arthur Geoffrey Walker]]
* [[Fries rearrangement|Fries]] and [[photo-Fries rearrangement]] – [[Karl Theophil Fries]]
* [[Fritsch–Buttenberg–Wiechell rearrangement]] – [[Paul Ernst Moritz Fritsch]], [[Wilhelm Paul Buttenberg]], and [[Heinrich G. Wiechell]]
* [[Frobenius algebra]], [[Frobenius automorphism|automorphism]], [[Frobenius method|method]], [[Frobenius norm|norm]], [[Frobenius theorem (differential topology)|theorem]] – [[Ferdinand Georg Frobenius]]
* [[Froude number]] – [[William Froude]]
* [[Fry readability formula]] – [[Edward Fry]]
* [[Fujita scale]] (a.k.a. F-Scale, [[Fujita–Pearson scale]]) – [[Tetsuya Theodore Fujita]] (and [[Allen Pearson]])
* [[Fujiwhara effect]] – [[Sakuhei Fujiwhara]]

==G==
* [[Gabriel synthesis]] – [[Siegmund Gabriel]]
* [[Gardner transition]] – [[Elizabeth Gardner (physicist)|Elizabeth Gardner]]
* Garman limit – [[Elspeth Garman]]
* [[Gattermann reaction]] – [[Ludwig Gattermann]]
* [[Gattermann–Koch reaction]] – [[Ludwig Gattermann]] and [[Julius Arnold Koch]]
* [[Gaunt factor]] (or Kramers–Gaunt factor) – [[John Arthur Gaunt]] (and [[Hendrik Anthony Kramers]])
* [[Gause's principle]] – [[Georgii Gause]]
* [[Gauss's law]] – [[Carl Friedrich Gauss]]
* [[Gauss–Bonnet gravity]], [[Gauss–Bonnet theorem|theorem]] – [[Carl Friedrich Gauss]] and [[Pierre Ossian Bonnet]]
* [[Geib–Spevack process]] (a.k.a. Girdler sulfide (GS) process) – [[Karl-Hermann Geib]] and [[Jerome S. Spevack]] (and the Girdler company, which built the first American plant using the process)
* [[Geiger counter]] (a.k.a. [[Geiger–Müller counter]]) – [[Johannes Wilhelm (Hans) Geiger]] (and [[Walther Müller]])
* [[Geiger–Marsden experiment]] (a.k.a. [[Rutherford experiment]]) – [[Johannes Wilhelm (Hans) Geiger]] and [[Ernest Marsden]]
* [[Geiger–Müller tube]] – [[Johannes Wilhelm (Hans) Geiger]] and [[Walther Müller]]
* [[Geiger–Nuttall law]]/rule – [[Johannes Wilhelm (Hans) Geiger]] and [[John Mitchell Nuttall]]
* [[Geissler tube]] – [[Heinrich Geissler]]
* [[Gibbs entropy]], [[Gibbs free energy|free energy]], [[Gibbs paradox|paradox]], [[Gibbs's phase rule]], [[Gibbs phenomenon]] – [[Josiah Willard Gibbs]]
* [[Gibbs–Donnan effect]] (a.k.a. [[Donnan effect]]) – [[Josiah Willard Gibbs]] and [[Frederick G. Donnan]]
* [[Gibbs–Marangoni effect]] (a.k.a. [[Marangoni effect]]) – [[Josiah Willard Gibbs]] and [[Carlo Marangoni]]
* [[Gibbs–Helmholtz equation]] – [[Josiah Willard Gibbs]] and [[Hermann von Helmholtz]]
* [[Gibbs–Thomson effect]] – [[Josiah Willard Gibbs]] and three Thomsons: [[James Thomson (engineer)|James Thomson]]<!-- there is also [[James Thomson (Lord Kelvin's father)]] -->, [[William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin]], [[J. J. Thomson|Joseph John "J. J." Thomson]]
* [[Giffen good]] – [[Robert Giffen]]
* [[Gleissberg solar cycle]] – [[Wolfgang Gleißberg]]
* [[Gloger's rule]] – [[Constantin Wilhelm Lambert Gloger]]
* [[Goldbach's conjecture]] – [[Christian Goldbach]]
* [[Goldstone boson]] (a.k.a. [[Nambu–Goldstone boson]]) – see Nambu–Goldstone boson, below
* [[Gomberg–Bachmann reaction]] – [[Moses Gomberg]] and [[Werner Emmanuel Bachmann]]
* [[Goodhart's law]] – [[Charles Goodhart]]
* [[Goos–Hänchen effect]] or shift – [[Fritz Goos]] and [[Hilda Hänchen]]
* [[Gould Belt]] – [[Benjamin Gould]]
* [[Grashof number]] – [[Franz Grashof]]
* [[Greisen–Zatsepin–Kuzmin limit|Greisen–Zatsepin–Kuzmin cut-off/limit]] (a.k.a. GZK cutoff/limit) – [[Kenneth Greisen]], [[Georgiy Zatsepin]] and [[Vadim Kuzmin (physicist)|Vadim Kuzmin]]
* [[Gresham's law]] – [[Thomas Gresham]]
* [[Griess test]] (diazotization reaction) – [[Peter Griess|Johann Peter Griess]]
* [[Grignard reaction]] – [[François Auguste Victor Grignard]]
* [[Grob fragmentation]] – [[Cyril A. Grob]]
* [[Gromov–Witten invariant]] – [[Mikhail Gromov (mathematician)|Mikhail Gromov]] and [[Edward Witten]]
* [[Grosch's law]] – [[Herbert Reuben John Grosch]]
* [[Grotrian diagram]] – [[Walter Robert Wilhelm Grotrian]]
* [[Grotthuss mechanism|Grotthuss chain]] – [[Theodor Grotthuss|Christian Johann Dietrich Theodor von Grotthuss]]
* [[Grotthuss–Draper law]] – [[Theodor Grotthuss|Christian Johann Dietrich Theodor von Grotthuss]] and [[John William Draper]]
* [[Gunn diode]], [[Gunn effect|effect]] – [[J. B. Gunn|John Battiscombe "J. B." Gunn]]
* [[Gunning fog index]] – Robert Gunning
* [[Gustafson's law]], a.k.a. [[Gustafson–Barsis's law]] – [[John L. Gustafson]] (and [[Edward H. Barsis]])
* [[Gutenberg–Richter law]] – [[Beno Gutenberg]] and [[Charles Francis Richter]]

==H==
* [[Haar measure]] – [[Alfréd Haar]]
* [[Hadamard inequality]] – [[Jacques Solomon Hadamard]]
* [[Hadamard transform]] (a.k.a. Hadamard–Rademacher–Walsh transform) – [[Jacques Hadamard]], [[Hans Rademacher]], and [[Joseph L. Walsh]]<!-- (1895–1972) -->
* [[Hadley cell]] – [[George Hadley]]
* [[Hagedorn temperature]] – [[Rolf Hagedorn]]
* [[Haitz's law]] – [[Roland Haitz]]
* [[Haldane effect]] – [[John Scott Haldane]]
* [[Haldane's principle]] – [[John Burdon Sanderson Haldane]]
* [[Hale solar cycle]] – [[George Ellery Hale]]
* [[Hall effect]] – [[Edwin Hall]]<!--
* [[Hallstatt solar cycle]] – named after a cool and wet [[Hallstatt culture|period in Europe when glaciers advanced]] -->
* [[Hamilton's rule]] – [[William Donald Hamilton|William Donald "Bill" Hamilton]]
* [[Hamming code]], [[Hamming distance]], [[Hamming weight]] – [[Richard Hamming]]
* [[Hammond postulate]] – [[George Simms Hammond]]
* [[Hanle effect]] – [[Wilhelm Hanle]]
* [[Hardy notation]], [[Hardy space|space]] – [[Godfrey Harold Hardy]]
* [[Hardy–Littlewood circle method]], [[First Hardy–Littlewood conjecture|first conjecture]] – [[Godfrey Harold Hardy]] and [[John E. Littlewood]]
* [[Hardy–Weinberg principle]] – [[Wilhelm Weinberg]] and [[Godfrey Harold Hardy]]
* [[Harrod–Johnson diagram]] – [[Roy F. Harrod]] and [[Harry G. Johnson]]
* [[Hartley oscillator]] – [[Ralph Hartley]]
* [[Hartman effect]] – [[Thomas E. Hartman]]
* [[Hartmann mask]] (or hat) – [[Johannes Hartmann]]
* [[Hartree energy]] – [[Douglas Hartree]]
* [[Hasse's algorithm]] – see [[Collatz conjecture]], above
* [[Hasse diagram]], [[Hasse principle|principle]] – [[Helmut Hasse]]
* [[Hasse–Minkowski theorem]] – [[Helmut Hasse]] and [[Hermann Minkowski]]
* [[Hausdorff dimension]] – [[Felix Hausdorff]]
* [[Hawthorne effect]] – from the [[Hawthorne Works]] factory (where experiments were carried out 1924–1932)<!-- I know it's not "named after people" (it probably is, indirectly, since Hawthorne is not a place name), but it should be listed nevertheless so it doesn't lead the user to think it was a simple omission -->
* [[Hayashi track]] – [[Chushiro Hayashi]]
* [[Hayflick limit]] – [[Leonard Hayflick]]
* [[Hawking radiation]] (a.k.a. [[Bekenstein–Hawking radiation]]) – [[Stephen Hawking]] (and [[Jacob Bekenstein]])
* Heaviside layer – see [[Kennelly–Heaviside layer]]
* [[Hebbian learning]] – [[Donald Olding Hebb]]
* [[Heine–Borel theorem]] – [[Heinrich Eduard Heine]] and [[Émile Borel]]
* [[Heinlein's razor]] – see [[Hanlon's razor]], above
* [[Heisenberg uncertainty principle]] – [[Werner Heisenberg]]
* [[Hellmann–Feynman theorem]] – [[Hans Hellmann]] and [[Richard Feynman]]
* [[Helmholtz free energy]], [[Helmholtz resonance]] – [[Hermann von Helmholtz]]
* [[Hénon map]] – [[Michel Hénon]]
* [[Hénon–Heiles system]], potential – [[Michel Hénon]] and [[Carl E. Heiles]]
* [[Henrietta's law]] – ''see Leavitt's law, below''
* [[Henyey track]] – [[Louis G. Henyey]]
* [[Herbig Ae/Be star]] – [[George Herbig]]
* [[Herbig–Haro object]] – [[George Herbig]] and [[Guillermo Haro]]
* [[Herbrand base]], [[Herbrand interpretation|interpretation]], [[Herbrand structure|structure]], [[Herbrand universe|universe]], and [[Herbrand's theorem]] – [[Jacques Herbrand]]
* [[Hertz effect]] – [[Heinrich Rudolf Hertz]]
* [[Hertzsprung–Russell diagram]] – [[Ejnar Hertzsprung]] and [[Henry Norris Russell]]
* [[Hess afterimage]] – [[Carl von Hess]]
* [[Hess diagram]] – R. Hess
* [[Heusler alloy]] – [[Fritz Heusler]]
* [[Heyting algebra]], [[Heyting arithmetic|arithmetic]] – [[Arend Heyting]]
* [[Hick's law]], a.k.a. Hick–Hyman law – [[William Edmund Hick]] and [[Ray Hyman]]
* [[Higgs boson]], [[Higgs field|field]] – [[Peter Higgs]]
* [[Higgs mechanism]] – see [[Anderson–Higgs mechanism]], above
* [[Hilbert–Waring theorem]] (a.k.a. [[Waring's problem]]) – [[David Hilbert]] and [[Edward Waring]]
* [[Hill sphere]] (a.k.a. [[Roche sphere]]) – [[George William Hill]] (and [[Édouard Roche]])
* [[Hills cloud]] – [[Jack G. Hills]]
* [[Hipparchic cycle]] – [[Hipparchus of Nicaea]] (a.k.a. Hipparchus of Rhodes)
* [[Hirayama family]] – [[Kiyotsugu Hirayama]]
* [[Hirsch–Meeks fusor]] – [[Robert L. Hirsch]] and [[Gene A. Meeks]]
* [[Hofstadter's butterfly]], [[Hofstadter's law|law]] – [[Douglas Hofstadter]]
* [[Hopfield dielectric]] – [[John J. Hopfield]]
* [[Hopfield network]] – [[John J. Hopfield]]
* [[Hořava–Lifshitz gravity]] – [[Petr Hořava (theorist)|Petr Hořava]] and [[Evgeny Lifshitz]]
* [[Hořava–Witten domain wall]] – [[Petr Hořava (theorist)|Petr Hořava]] and [[Edward Witten]]
* [[Hubbert peak]] – [[Marion King Hubbert]]
* [[Hubble constant]], [[Hubble expansion|expansion]] – [[Edwin Hubble]]
* [[Hubble–Reynolds law]] – [[Edwin Hubble]] and [[John Reynolds (astronomer)|John Henry Reynolds]]
* [[Huchra's Lens]] – [[John Huchra]]
* [[Humphreys series|Humphreys line/series]] – [[Curtis J. Humphreys]]
* [[List of Hund's rules|Hund's Rules]] – [[Friedrich Hund]]
* [[Hunsdiecker reaction]] – [[Heinz Hunsdiecker]] and [[Cläre Hunsdiecker]]
* [[Huygens–Fresnel principle]] – [[Christiaan Huygens]] and [[Augustin-Jean Fresnel]]

==I==

* [[Imbert–Fedorov effect]] – [[Christian Imbert]] and [[Fedor Ivanovič Fedorov]]
* [[Ishikawa diagram]] – [[Kaoru Ishikawa]]
* [[Ising model]] (a.k.a. [[Lenz–Ising model]]) – [[Ernst Ising]] (and [[Wilhelm Lenz]])

==J==

* [[Jaccard index]], similarity coefficient, distance – [[Paul Jaccard]]
* [[Jaffe profile]] (or model) – [[Walter Jaffe]]
* [[Jahn–Teller effect]] – [[Hermann Arthur Jahn]] and [[Edward Teller]]
* [[Jaro–Winkler distance]] – Matthew A. Jaro and [[William E. Winkler]]
* [[Jarque–Bera test]] – [[Carlos M. Jarque]] and [[Anil K. Bera]]
* [[Jeans's theorem]] – [[James Hopwood Jeans]]
* [[Johnson–Nyquist noise]] – [[John Bertrand Johnson|John B. Johnson]] and [[Harry Nyquist]]
* [[Jordan's rule]]/law – [[David Starr Jordan]]<!-- Jordan, D. S. (1891) ''Relations of temperature to vertebrae among
fishes'', Proc. U.S. Natl. Mus. 14: 107–120 (Jordan's first rule; there is a second one, which may be named after the same man) -->
* [[Josephson constant]], [[Josephson effect|effect]], [[Josephson junction|junction]] – [[Brian David Josephson]]
* [[Joule's first law|Joule's law]] (a.k.a. Joule–Lenz law) – [[James Prescott Joule]] and [[Heinrich Friedrich Emil Lenz]]
* [[Joule–Thomson effect]] (a.k.a. Joule–Kelvin effect) – [[James Prescott Joule]] and [[William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin]]

==K==
* [[K3 surface]] – [[Ernst Kummer]], [[Erich Kähler]], [[Kunihiko Kodaira]]
* [[Kähler differential]], [[Kähler manifold|manifold]], [[Kähler metric|metric]] – [[Erich Kähler]]
* [[Kakutani's problem]] – see [[Collatz conjecture]], above
* [[Kármán vortex street]] – [[Theodore von Kármán]]
* [[Karnaugh map]] (a.k.a. [[Karnaugh–Veitch map]], [[Veitch diagram]]) – [[Maurice Karnaugh]] (and [[Edward W. Veitch]])
* [[Karush–Kuhn–Tucker conditions]] (a.k.a. Kuhn–Tucker conditions) – [[William Karush]], [[Harold W. Kuhn]] and [[Albert W. Tucker]]
* [[Kasha's rule]] – [[Michael Kasha]]
* [[Kater's pendulum]] – Captain [[Henry Kater]]
* [[Kaye effect]] – [[Alan Kaye (engineer)|Alan Kaye]]
* [[Keeling curve]] – [[Charles David Keeling]]
* [[Kelvin wave]] – [[William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin]]
* [[Kelvin–Helmholtz mechanism]], [[Kelvin–Helmholtz instability|instability]] – [[William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin]] and [[Hermann von Helmholtz]]
* Kelvin–Joule effect (a.k.a. [[Joule–Thomson effect]]) – [[William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin]] and [[James Prescott Joule]]
* [[Kelvin–Voigt material]], [[Kelvin–Voigt model|model]] – [[Woldemar Voigt]] and [[William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin]]
* [[Kennelly–Heaviside layer]] – [[Arthur Edwin Kennelly]] and [[Oliver Heaviside]]
* [[Kennicutt–Schmidt law]] (a.k.a. Schmidt–Kennicutt law, or Schmidt law) – [[Maarten Schmidt]] and [[Robert Kennicutt]]
* [[Kepler's laws of planetary motion]] – [[Johannes Kepler]]
* [[Kerr effect]] – [[John Kerr (physicist)|John Kerr]]
* [[Kirkendall effect]] – [[Ernest Kirkendall]]
* [[Kleene star]] (a.k.a. Kleene operator, Kleene closure) – [[Stephen Kleene]]
* [[Klein–Gordon equation]] – [[Oskar Klein]] and [[Walter Gordon (physicist)|Walter Gordon]]
* [[Klein–Nishina effect]] – [[Oskar Klein]] and [[Yoshio Nishina]]
* [[Knudsen cell]], [[Knudsen number|number]] – [[Martin Hans Christian Knudsen]]
* [[Kodaira dimension]], [[Kodaira embedding theorem|embedding theorem]], [[Kodaira vanishing theorem|vanishing theorem]] – [[Kunihiko Kodaira]]
* [[Koenigs–Knorr reaction]] – [[Wilhelm Koenigs]] and [[Edward Knorr]]
* [[Kohn effect]] – [[Walter Kohn]]
* [[Kohn–Sham equations]] – [[Walter Kohn]] and [[Lu Jeu Sham]]
* [[Kohonen network]] – [[Teuvo Kohonen]]
* [[Kolakoski sequence]] – [[William Kolakoski]]
* [[Kolbe electrolysis]] – [[Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe]]
* [[Kolbe–Schmitt reaction]] – [[Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe]] and [[Rudolf Schmitt]]
* [[Kondo effect]] – [[Jun Kondo]]
* [[Kornblum oxidation]] – [[Nathan Kornblum]]
* [[Kornblum–DeLaMare rearrangement]] – [[Nathan Kornblum]] and [[Harold E. DeLaMare]]
* [[Kossel effect]] – [[Walther Kossel]]
* [[Kosterlitz–Thouless transition]] – see Berezinsky–Kosterlitz–Thouless transition, above
* [[Kozai effect]] – [[Yoshihide Kozai]]<!-- See [[Carpo (moon)]] for details -->
* [[Krebs cycle]] – [[Hans Adolf Krebs]]
* [[Kratzer potential]] – [[Adolf Kratzer]]
* [[Kronecker delta]] – [[Leopold Kronecker]]
* Kuhn–Tucker conditions – see [[Karush–Kuhn–Tucker conditions]], above
* [[Kuiper belt]] – [[Gerard Kuiper]]
* [[Confluent hypergeometric function|Kummer's function]], [[Kummer surface]] – [[Ernst Kummer]]
* [[Kuramoto model]] – [[Yoshiki Kuramoto]]

==L==
* [[Lagrangian mechanics]], [[Lagrange points]] – [[Joseph-Louis Lagrange]]
* [[Lamb shift]] – [[Willis Lamb]]
* [[Lambert's cosine law]] (a.k.a. Lambert's emission law) – [[Johann Heinrich Lambert]]
* [[Landau damping]], [[Landau pole|pole]] – [[Lev Davidovich Landau]]
* [[Landau–Pomeranchuk–Migdal effect]] – [[Lev Davidovich Landau]], [[Isaak Pomeranchuk]], and [[Arkady Migdal]]
* [[Landau–Zener transition]] – [[Lev Davidovich Landau]] and [[Clarence Zener]]
* [[Landé g-factor|Landé ''g''-factor]] – [[Alfred Landé]]
* [[Langmuir probe]] – [[Irving Langmuir]]
* [[Langmuir–Blodgett film]] – [[Irving Langmuir]] and [[Katharine B. Blodgett]]
* Laplace vector – see Laplace–Runge–Lenz vector, below
* [[Laplace–Runge–Lenz vector]] (a.k.a. LRL vector, Laplace vector, Runge–Lenz vector, Lenz vector) – [[Pierre-Simon de Laplace]], [[Carl Runge]] and [[Wilhelm Lenz]]
* [[Larmor frequency]], [[Larmor precession|precession]], [[Larmor radius|radius]] – [[Joseph Larmor]]
* [[Larsen effect]] – [[Søren Absalon Larsen]]
* [[Laspeyres index]] – [[Ernst Louis Etienne Laspeyres]]
* [[Leavitt's law]] (a.k.a. [[Henrietta's law]]) – [[Henrietta Swan Leavitt]]
* [[Le Chatelier's principle]] – [[Henri Louis Le Chatelier]]
* [[Lee distance]] – [[C. Y. Lee (mathematician)|C. Y. Lee]]
* [[Leidenfrost effect]], [[Leidenfrost point|point]] – [[Johann Gottlob Leidenfrost]]
* [[Lenard effect]] – [[Philipp Eduard Anton von Lenard]]
* [[Lennard-Jones potential]] – [[John Lennard-Jones]]
* [[Lense–Thirring effect]] (a.k.a. [[Thirring effect]]) – [[Josef Lense]] and [[Hans Thirring]]
* Lenz vector – see Laplace–Runge–Lenz vector, above
* [[Lenz's law]] – [[Heinrich Friedrich Emil Lenz]]
* [[Leonard–Merritt mass estimator]] – Peter Leonard and [[David Merritt]]
* [[Levenshtein distance]], [[Levenshtein automaton|automaton]] – [[Vladimir Levenshtein]]
* [[Levi-Civita symbol]] – [[Tullio Levi-Civita]]
* [[Lewis–Mogridge Position]] – [[David Lewis (Canadian academic)|David Lewis]] and [[Martin J. H. Mogridge]]
* [[Little–Parks effect]] – {{ill|William A. Little (physicist)|lt=William A. Little|de|William A. Little}} and [[Roland D. Parks]]
* [[Littlewood–Offord problem]] – [[John E. Littlewood]] and [[A. Cyril Offord]]
* [[Locard's exchange principle]] – [[Edmond Locard]]
* [[Lode angle]], [[Lode coordinates]] – [[Walter Lode]]
* [[Lombard effect]] – [[Étienne Lombard]]
* [[London force]] – [[Fritz London]]
* [[Lorentz force]], [[Lorentz transformation|transformation]] – [[Hendrik Antoon Lorentz]]
* [[Lorentz–Lorenz equation]] – [[Hendrik Antoon Lorentz]] and [[Ludvig Lorenz]]
* [[Lorenz attractor]] – [[Edward Norton Lorenz]]
* [[Lorenz curve]] – [[Max O. Lorenz]]
* [[Lorenz gauge condition]] – [[Ludvig Lorenz]]
* [[Lorenz–Mie scattering]] – see [[Mie scattering]], below
* [[Loschmidt's paradox]] – [[Johann Josef Loschmidt]]
* [[Lotka's law]] – [[Alfred J. Lotka]]
* [[Lotka–Volterra equation]] – [[Alfred J. Lotka]] and [[Vito Volterra]]
* [[Love waves]] – [[Augustus Edward Hough Love]]
* [[Lucas critique]] – [[Robert Lucas, Jr.]]
* [[Lyapunov's central limit theorem]], [[Lyapunov equation|equation]], [[Lyapunov exponent|exponent]], [[Lyapunov fractal|fractal]], [[Lyapunov function|function]], [[Lyapunov stability|stability]], [[Lyapunov test|test]], [[Lyapunov time|time]] and [[Lyapunov tube|tube]] – [[Aleksandr Mikhailovich Lyapunov]]
* [[Lyman line]], [[Lyman series|series]] – [[Theodore Lyman IV|Theodore Lyman]]

==M==
* [[Mach band|Mach band/effect]], [[Mach number|number]], [[Mach's principle|principle]] – [[Ernst Mach]]
* [[Mach–Zehnder interferometer]] – [[Ludwig Mach]] and [[Ludwig Zehnder]]
* [[Madelung constant]], [[Madelung rule|rule]], [[Madelung energy|energy]] – [[Erwin Madelung]]
* Maggi–Righi–Leduc effect ([[Thermal Hall effect]]) – [[Gian Antonio Maggi]], [[Augusto Righi]] and [[Sylvestre Anatole Leduc]]
* [[Magnus effect]] – [[Heinrich Gustav Magnus]]
* [[Magorrian relation]] – [[John Magorrian]]
* [[Mahalanobis distance]] – [[Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis]] (প্রশান্ত চন্দ্র মহলানবিস)
* [[Mahler measure]], [[Mahler's theorem]] – [[Kurt Mahler]]
* [[Maillard reaction]]
* [[Malmquist bias]], [[Malmquist effect|effect]] – [[Karl Gunnar Malmquist]]
* [[Malus's law]] – [[Étienne-Louis Malus]]
* [[Malthusian parameter]] – named by [[Ronald Fisher]] as a criticism of [[Thomas Robert Malthus]]
* [[Malthusian catastrophe]], [[Malthusian Growth Model|growth model]] – [[Thomas Robert Malthus]]
* [[Marangoni cell|Marangoni cell/convection]] (a.k.a. [[Bénard–Marangoni convection]]) – see Bénard–Marangoni cell/convection, above
* [[Marangoni effect]] (a.k.a. [[Gibbs–Marangoni effect]]) – see [[Gibbs–Marangoni effect]], above
* [[Markov's inequality]], [[Markov chain|chain]], [[Markov partition|partition]], [[Markovian process]] – [[Andrey Markov]]
* [[Mathieu functions]] – [[Émile Léonard Mathieu]]
* [[Matilda effect]] – [[Matilda Joslyn Gage]]
* [[Matthew effect (sociology)|Matthew effect]] – [[Matthew the Evangelist]]
* [[Maxwell–Boltzmann distribution]] – [[James Clerk Maxwell]] and [[Ludwig Boltzmann]]
* [[McCollough effect]] – [[Celeste McCollough]]
* [[McCulloch–Pitts neuron]] – [[Warren McCulloch]] and [[Walter Pitts]]
* [[McGurk effect]] (a.k.a. [[McGurk–MacDonald effect]]) – [[Harry McGurk]] (and John MacDonald)
* [[Mealy machine]] – [[George H. Mealy]]
* [[Meissner effect]] (a.k.a. [[Meissner–Ochsenfeld effect]]) – [[Walther Meissner]] (and [[Robert Ochsenfeld]])
* [[Mendelian inheritance]] – [[Gregor Mendel]]
* [[Mercalli intensity scale]] (Modified Mercalli scale) – [[Giuseppe Mercalli]]
* [[Metonic cycle]] – [[Meton of Athens]]
* [[Meyers synthesis]] – [[Albert I. Meyers]]
* [[Mie scattering]] (a.k.a. [[Lorenz–Mie scattering]]) – [[Gustav Mie]] (and [[Ludvig Lorenz]])
* [[Mihăilescu's theorem]] (a.k.a. [[Catalan's conjecture]]) – [[Preda Mihăilescu]]
* [[Mikheyev–Smirnov–Wolfenstein effect]] – [[Stanislav Mikheyev]], [[Alexei Smirnov (physicist)|Alexei Smirnov]], and [[Lincoln Wolfenstein]]
* [[Miller effect]] – [[John Milton Miller]] 
* [[Miller indices]] (a.k.a. [[Miller–Bravais indices]]) – [[William Hallowes Miller]] (and [[Auguste Bravais]])
* [[Misnay–Schardin effect]] – Col. József Misnay and [[Hubert Schardin]]
* [[Mögel–Dellinger effect]] – see [[Dellinger effect]], above
* [[Mohorovičić discontinuity]] (Moho) – [[Andrija Mohorovičić]]
* [[Mohr's circle]] – [[Christian Otto Mohr]]
* [[Mohr–Coulomb theory]] – [[Christian Otto Mohr]] and [[Charles-Augustin de Coulomb]]
* [[Mooers's law]] – [[Calvin Mooers]]
* [[Moore machine]] – [[Edward Forrest Moore]]
* [[Moore's law]] – [[Gordon E. Moore]]
* [[centimorgan|Morgan unit]] – [[Thomas Hunt Morgan]]
* [[Moreton wave]] – [[Gail E. Moreton]]
* [[Morse potential]] – [[Philip M. Morse]]
* [[Moses effect]] – after biblical [[Moses]]
* [[Mössbauer effect]] – [[Rudolf Mössbauer]]
* [[Mott scattering|Mott cross section]], [[Mott insulator]], [[Mott transition]] – [[Nevill Francis Mott]]
* [[Mpemba effect]] – [[Erasto B. Mpemba]]
* [[Müllerian mimicry]] – [[Fritz Müller]]
* [[Munroe effect]] – [[Charles Edward Munroe]]
* [[Muraour's law]] – [[Henri Muraour]] (1880–1954)<!--  H. Muraour, "Note on the theory of explosive reactions", ''Transactions of the Faraday Society'', 34, 1938, p. 989, DOI 10.1039/TF9383400989; H. Muraour, ''Comptes-rendus'', 194, 1932, p. 280; H. Muraour, ''Revue générale des sciences'',  31 octobre 1933, p. 35-->
* [[Murphy's law]] – Maj. [[Edward A. Murphy, Jr.]]<!-- "If there are two or more ways to do something, and one of those ways can result in a catastrophe, then someone will do it." USAF project MX981, 1949 -->

==N==
* [[Nambu–Goldstone boson]] (a.k.a. [[Goldstone boson]]) – [[Yoichiro Nambu]] and [[Jeffrey Goldstone]]
* [[Nash equilibrium]] – [[John Forbes Nash]]
* [[Nassi–Shneiderman diagram]] – [[Isaac Nassi]] and [[Ben Shneiderman]]
* [[Necker cube]] – [[Louis Albert Necker]]
* [[Needleman–Wunsch algorithm]] – [[Saul B. Needleman]] and [[Christian D. Wunsch]]
* [[Néel temperature]] – [[Louis Néel]]
* [[Nernst effect]] (a.k.a. Nernst–Ettingshausen effect) – [[Walther Hermann Nernst]] and [[Albert von Ettingshausen]]
* [[Nernst equation]] – [[Walther Hermann Nernst]]
* [[Neupert effect]] – [[Werner Neupert]]
* [[Newcomb's paradox]] – [[William Newcomb]]
* [[Newton's rings]], [[Newtonian constant of gravitation]], [[Newtonian mechanics|mechanics]] – [[Isaac Newton]]
* [[Noether's theorem]] – [[Emmy Noether]]
* [[Nordtvedt effect]] – [[Kenneth L. Nordtvedt]]
* [[Nyquist frequency]], [[Nyquist rate]] – [[Harry Nyquist]]
* [[Nyquist–Shannon sampling theorem]] (a.k.a. Nyquist–Shannon–Kotelnikov, Whittaker–Shannon–Kotelnikov, Whittaker–Nyquist–Kotelnikov–Shannon, WKS theorem) – [[Harry Nyquist]], [[Claude Shannon]], [[Edmund Taylor Whittaker]], and [[Vladimir Kotelnikov]]

==O==
* [[Oberth effect]] – [[Hermann Oberth]]
* [[O'Connell effect]] – [[Daniel Joseph Kelly O'Connell]]
* [[Olbers's paradox]] – [[Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers]]
* [[Ohm's law]] – [[Georg Ohm]]
* [[Okun's law]] – [[Arthur Okun]]
* [[Omori's law]] – [[Fusakichi Omori]]
* [[Onnes effect]] – [[Heike Kamerlingh Onnes]]
* [[Oort cloud]] (a.k.a. [[Öpik–Oort cloud]]) – [[Jan Hendrik Oort]] (and [[Ernst Julius Öpik]])
* [[Ostriker–Peebles criterion]] – [[Jeremiah P. Ostriker]] and [[Jim Peebles]]
* [[Ostwald's dilution law]], [[Ostwald process]] – [[Friedrich Wilhelm Ostwald]]
* [[Dynamic nuclear polarization#Overhauser effect|Overhauser effect]] – [[Albert Overhauser]]
* [[Ovshinsky effect]] – [[Stanford R. Ovshinsky]]

==P==
* [[Paal–Knorr synthesis]] – [[Carl Paal]] and [[Ludwig Knorr]]
* [[Pareto chart]], [[Pareto distribution|distribution]], [[Pareto efficiency|efficiency]], [[Pareto index|index]], [[Pareto principle|principle]] – [[Vilfredo Federico Damaso Pareto]]
* [[Pareto–Zipf law]] (a.k.a. [[Zipf–Mandelbrot law]]) – [[Vilfredo Pareto]] and [[George K. Zipf]] (or [[Benoît Mandelbrot]])
* [[Parrondo's games]], [[Parrondo's paradox|paradox]] – [[Juan Manuel Rodríguez Parrondo]]
* [[Paschen curve]], [[Paschen lines|line]], [[Paschen's law|law]] – [[Friedrich Paschen]]
* [[Paschen–Back effect]] – [[Friedrich Paschen]] and [[Ernst Back]]
* [[Pasteur effect]] – [[Louis Pasteur]]
* [[Paternò–Büchi reaction]] – [[Emanuele Paternò]] and [[George Büchi]]
* [[Pauli exclusion principle]] – [[Wolfgang Pauli]]
* [[Peano curve]] – [[Giuseppe Peano]]
* [[Pearson–Anson effect]] – [[Stephen Oswald Pearson]] and [[Horatio Saint George Anson]]
* [[Péclet number]] – [[Jean Claude Eugène Péclet]]
* [[Peltier effect]] – [[Jean Charles Athanase Peltier]]
* [[Perlin noise]] – [[Ken Perlin]]
* [[Perron–Frobenius theorem]] – [[Oskar Perron]], and [[Ferdinand Georg Frobenius]]
* [[Petkau effect]] – [[Abram Petkau]]
* [[Petri dish]] – [[Julius Richard Petri]]
* [[Petri net]] – [[Carl Adam Petri]]
* [[Peyer's patches]] – [[Johann Conrad Peyer]]
* [[Pfeiffer effect]] – [[Paul Pfeiffer (chemist)|Paul Pfeiffer]]
* [[Pfund series|Pfund line/series]] – [[August Herman Pfund]]
* [[Phillips curve]] – [[William Phillips (economist)]]
* [[Pigou effect]] – [[Arthur Cecil Pigou]]
* [[Piobert's law]] – [[Guillaume Piobert]] (1793–1871)<!-- https://books.google.ca/books?id=AK8zAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA845 see also e.g. https://books.google.ca/books?id=KEPgEgX2BEEC&pg=PA103 -->
* [[Pisot–Vijayaraghavan number]] – [[Charles Pisot]] and [[Tirukkannapuram Vijayaraghavan]]
* [[Planck constant]], [[Planck length|length]], [[Planck mass|mass]], [[Planck time|time]] – [[Max Planck]]
* [[Platonic year]] – [[Plato]]
* [[Pockels effect]] – [[Friedrich Carl Alwin Pockels]]
* [[Pogson ratio]] – [[Norman Robert Pogson]]
* [[Poincaré map]], [[Poincaré section|section]] – [[Henri Poincaré]]
* [[Poincaré–Bendixson theorem]] – [[Henri Poincaré]] and [[Ivar Otto Bendixson]]
* [[Poinsot's spirals]] – [[Louis Poinsot]]
* [[Polchinski's paradox]] – [[Joseph Polchinski]]
* [[Potts model]] (a.k.a. [[Ashkin–Teller model]]) – [[Renfrey B. Potts]], [[Julius Ashkin]], and [[Edward Teller]]
* [[Pourbaix diagram]] – [[Marcel Pourbaix]]
* [[Poynting effect]], [[Poynting vector|vector]] – [[John Henry Poynting]]
* [[Poynting–Robertson effect]] – [[John Henry Poynting]] and [[Howard P. Robertson]]
* [[Prandtl number]] – [[Ludwig Prandtl]]
* [[Primakoff effect]] – [[Henry Primakoff]]
* [[Proteus phenomenon]] – [[Proteus]] (mythological god)
* [[Pulfrich effect]] – [[Carl P. Pulfrich]]
* [[Purkinje effect|Purkinje effect/shift]] – [[Johannes Evangelista Purkinje]]
* [[Pygmalion effect]] (a.k.a. [[Rosenthal effect]], [[observer-expectancy effect]]) – [[Pygmalion (mythology)|Pygmalion]] (and [[Robert Rosenthal (psychologist)|Robert Rosenthal]])
* [[Pythagorean theorem]] (a.k.a. Pythagoras's theorem) – [[Pythagoras]]

==R==
* [[Rabi oscillation]]s – [[Isidor Isaac Rabi]]
* [[Rademacher distribution]], [[Rademacher function|function]], [[Rademacher's series|series]], [[Rademacher sum|sum]] – [[Hans Adolph Rademacher]]
* [[Rademacher–Menchov theorem]] – [[Hans Adolph Rademacher]] and [[Dmitrii Menshov]]
* [[Radon transform]] – [[Johann Karl August Radon]]
* [[Raman scattering]] – [[Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman]]
* [[Ramsauer–Townsend effect]] (a.k.a. [[Ramsauer effect]], [[Townsend effect]]) – [[Carl Ramsauer]] and [[John Sealy Townsend]]
* [[Ramsden disc|Ramsden circle/disc/eyepoint]], [[Ramsden eyepiece|eyepiece]] – [[Jesse Ramsden]]
* [[Ramsey theory]] – [[Frank Plumpton Ramsey]]
* [[Rapoport's rule]] – [[Eduardo H. Rapoport]]
* [[Raychaudhuri's equation]] – [[Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri]] (অমল কুমার রায়চৌধুরী)
* [[Raygor Estimate Graph]] – [[Alton L. Raygor]]
* [[Angular resolution#The Rayleigh criterion|Rayleigh criterion]], [[Rayleigh distribution|distribution]], [[Rayleigh fading|fading]], [[Rayleigh number|number]], [[Rayleigh quotient|quotient]], [[Rayleigh scattering|scattering]], [[Rayleigh waves|waves]] – [[Lord Rayleigh]]
* [[Rayleigh–Bénard convection|Rayleigh–Bénard cell/convection]] – [[Lord Rayleigh]] and [[Henri Bénard]]
* [[Rayleigh–Jeans law]] – [[Lord Rayleigh]] and [[James Jeans]]
* [[Rayleigh–Taylor instability]] – [[Lord Rayleigh]] and [[G. I. Taylor]]
* [[Rees–Sciama effect]] – [[Martin Rees]] and [[Dennis Sciama]]
* [[Reidemeister move]]s – [[Kurt Reidemeister]]
* [[Résal effect]] – [[Louis-Jean Résal]]
* [[Rescorla–Wagner rule]] – [[Robert A. Rescorla]] and [[Allan R. Wagner]]
* [[Reynolds number]], [[Reynolds analogy]] – [[Osborne Reynolds]]
* [[Ribot's law]] (of Retrograde Amnesia) – [[Théodule-Armand Ribot]]<!-- Théodule Ribot (1881), ''Les Maladies de la mémoire'' [Diseases of Memory], Germer Baillière, Paris -->
* [[Ricardian equivalence]] (a.k.a. Barro–Ricardo equivalence, or Ricardo–de Viti–Barro equivalence) – [[Robert Barro]], [[David Ricardo]], and [[Antonio de Viti de Marco]]
* [[Richards controller]] – [[Charles L. Richards]]
* [[Richardson's constant]], [[Richardson equation|equation]], [[Richardson's law|law]] – [[Owen Willans Richardson]]
* [[Richardson number]] – [[Lewis Fry Richardson]]
* [[Richter magnitude scale]] – [[Charles Francis Richter]]
* [[Righi–Leduc effect]] (a.k.a. [[Leduc–Righi effect]]) – [[Augusto Righi]] and [[Sylvestre Anatole Leduc]]
* [[Ringelmann effect]] – [[Max Ringelmann]]
* [[Robertson–Walker metric]] (a.k.a. Friedmann–Robertson–Walker metric) – see [[Friedmann–Lemaître–Robertson–Walker metric]], above
* [[Roche limit]] – [[Édouard Roche]]
* [[Roche sphere]] (a.k.a. [[Hill sphere]]) – [[Édouard Roche]] (and [[George William Hill]])
* [[Rollin film]] – [[Bernard V. Rollin]]
* [[Rosenthal effect]] (a.k.a. [[Pygmalion effect]], [[observer-expectancy effect]]) – [[Robert Rosenthal (psychologist)|Robert Rosenthal]] (and [[Pygmalion (mythology)|Pygmalion]])
* [[Rossby waves]] – [[Carl-Gustaf Arvid Rossby]]
* [[Rossi–Forel scale]] – [[Michele Stefano de Rossi|Michele Stefano Conte de Rossi]] and [[François-Alphonse Forel]]
* [[Rössler equation]] – [[Otto Rössler]]
* [[Rossmann fold]] – [[Michael Rossmann]]
* [[Royer oscillator]] – [[George H. Royer]]
* [[Ruelle operator]], [[Ruelle zeta function|zeta function]] – [[David Ruelle]]
* [[Ruelle–Perron–Frobenius theorem]] – [[David Ruelle]], [[Oskar Perron]], and [[Ferdinand Georg Frobenius]]
* [[Ruhmkorff coil]] – [[Heinrich D. Ruhmkorff]]
* Runge–Lenz vector – see Laplace–Runge–Lenz vector
* [[Runge's phenomenon]] – [[Carle David Tolmé Runge]]
* [[Russell's paradox]] – [[Bertrand Russell]]
* [[Rutherford experiment]] (a.k.a. [[Geiger–Marsden experiment]]), [[Rutherford scattering|scattering]] – [[Ernest Rutherford]]
* [[Rybczynski theorem]] – [[Tadeusz Rybczynski]]
* [[Rydberg constant]], [[Rydberg formula|formula]] – [[Johannes Rydberg]]
* [[Rydberg–Klein–Rees method]] – [[Johannes Rydberg]], [[Oskar Klein]], and Albert Lloyd George Rees

==S==
* [[Sabattier effect|Sabatier]] or [[Sabattier effect]] – Sabat[t]ier<!-- He used both spellings -->, [https://web.archive.org/web/20051128004107/http://www.cchem.berkeley.edu/~wljeme/Chapt1.html first name unknown]<!-- not Armand, not Jean-Baptiste -->
* [[Sachs–Wolfe effect]] – [[Rainer K. Sachs]] and [[Arthur M. Wolfe]]
* [[Saffir–Simpson hurricane wind scale]] – [[Herbert S. Saffir]] and [[Bob Simpson (meteorologist)|Robert ("Bob") Simpson]]
* [[Sagnac effect]] – [[Georges Sagnac]]
* [[Saha ionization equation]] (a.k.a. Saha–Langmuir equation) – [[Megh Nad Saha]] (মেঘনাদ সাহা) (and [[Irving Langmuir]])
* [[Salem number]] – [[Raphaël Salem]]
* [[Sapir–Whorf hypothesis]] – [[Edward Sapir]] and [[Benjamin Whorf]]
* [[Sasakian manifold]], [[Sasakian metric|metric]] – [[Shigeo Sasaki]]
* [[Say's law]] – [[Jean-Baptiste Say]]
* [[Scheerer's phenomenon]] (Blue field entoptic phenomenon) – [[Richard Scheerer (ophthalmologist)|Richard Scheerer]]
* [[Schering Bridge]] – [[Harald Schering]]
* [[Schild plot]], [[Schild regression analysis|regression analysis]] – [[Heinz Otto Schild]]
* Schmidt law, Schmidt–Kennicutt law – see [[Kennicutt–Schmidt law]], above
* [[Schottky effect]] – [[Walter H. Schottky]]
* [[Schröter effect]] – [[Johann Hieronymus Schröter]]
* [[Schülen–Wilson effect]] – see [[Wilson effect]], below
* [[Schuler period]], [[Schuler tuning|tuning]] – [[Maximilian Schuler]]
* [[Schultz's rule]] – [[Adolph Hans Schultz]]
* [[Schumann–Runge bands]] – [[Victor Schumann]] and [[Carle David Tolmé Runge]]
* [[Schwabe solar cycle]] – [[Samuel Heinrich Schwabe]]
* [[Schwarzschild effect]], [[Schwarzschild metric|metric]], [[Schwarzschild radius|radius]] – [[Karl Schwarzschild]]
* [[Scott effect]] – [[Elizabeth L. Scott]]
* [[Secchi class|Secchi (stellar) class]], [[Secchi depth|depth]], [[Secchi disk|disk]] – [[Pietro Angelo Secchi]]
* [[Seebeck effect]] – [[Thomas Johann Seebeck]]
* [[Seiberg–Witten gauge theory]] – [[Nathan Seiberg]] and [[Edward Witten]]
* [[Seiberg–Witten invariant]] – [[Nathan Seiberg]] and [[Edward Witten]]
* [[Senftleben–Beenakker effect]] – [[Hermann Senftleben]] and [[Jan J. M. Beenakker]]
* [[Sertoli cell]]s – [[Enrico Sertoli]]
* [[Serre duality]] – [[Jean-Pierre Serre]]
* [[Seyfert galaxy]] – [[Carl Keenan Seyfert]]
* [[Shapiro effect]] – [[Irwin Shapiro]]
* [[Shimizu–Morioka attractor]], [[Shimizu–Morioka equations|equations]] – [[Tatsujiro Shimizu]] and [[Nozomi Morioka]]<!--
Shimizu, T.; Morioka, N.; ''Chaos and limit cycles in the Lorenz model'', Physics Letters A, 66:3, 182–184 (1978)
Shimizu, T.; Morioka, N.; ''On the bifurcation of a symmetric limit cycle to an asymmetric one in a simple model'', Physics Letters A, 76, 201–204 (1980)
-->
* [[Shubnikov–de Haas effect]] – [[Wander Johannes de Haas]] and [[Lev Vasiljevich Shubnikov]]
* [[Sieberg tsunami intensity scale]] – [[August Heinrich Sieberg]]
* [[Sieberg–Ambraseys tsunami intensity scale]] – [[August Heinrich Sieberg]] and [[Nicholas Ambraseys]]
* [[Simmons–Smith reaction]] – [[Howard Ensign Simmons, Jr.]]
* [[Simpson's paradox]] (a.k.a. [[Yule–Simpson effect]]) – [[Edward H. Simpson]] (and [[Udny Yule]])
* [[Simroth's organs]] – [[Heinrich Rudolf Simroth]]
* [[Smale's horseshoe]] – [[Stephen Smale]]
* [[Smale–Rössler theorem]] – [[Stephen Smale]] and [[Otto Rössler]]
* [[Smith–Waterman algorithm]] – [[Temple F. Smith]] and [[Michael S. Waterman]]
* [[Snell's law]] – [[Willebrord van Roijen Snell]]
* [[Soloviev tsunami intensity scale]] – [[Sergey L. Soloviev]]
* [[Sommerfeld–Kossel displacement law]] – [[Arnold Sommerfeld]] and [[Walther Kossel]]
* [[Sørensen similarity index]], similarity coefficient – [[Thorvald Sørensen]]
* [[Spörer's law]], [[Spörer Minimum]] – [[Gustav Spörer]]
* [[St. Elmo's fire]] – [[Erasmus of Formiae]]
* [[St. Robert's law]] (a.k.a. [[Vieille's law]]) – Comte [[Paul Ballada de Saint-Robert]], a.k.a. Conte [[Paolo Ballada di San Roberto]] (1815–1888)
* [[Staebler–Wronski effect]] – [[David L. Staebler]] and [[Christopher R. Wronski]]
* [[Stark effect]] (a.k.a. [[Stark–Lo Surdo effect]]) – [[Johannes Stark]] (and [[Antonino Lo Surdo]])
* [[Stark ladder]] (a.k.a. [[Wannier–Stark ladder]], q.v.) – [[Johannes Stark]] and [[Gregory Hugh Wannier]]
* [[Stark–Einstein law]] – [[Johannes Stark]] and [[Albert Einstein]]
* [[Stebbins–Whitford effect]] – [[Joel Stebbins]] and [[Albert Edward Whitford]]
* [[Stefan's constant]], [[Stefan's law|law]] (a.k.a. Stefan–Boltzmann constant, law) – [[Jožef Stefan]] (and [[Ludwig Boltzmann]])
* [[Stensen's duct]] – [[Niels Stensen]]
* [[Stern–Levison parameter]] – [[S. Alan Stern]] and [[Harold F. Levison]]
* [[Stevens effect (disambiguation)|Stevens effect]] – [[Joseph C. Stevens|Joseph C.]]<!-- see http://books.google.ca/books?id=XvSpCAAAQBAJ --> and [[Stanley Smith Stevens]]<!-- (1963) ''Brightness functions: Effects of Adaptation'', Journal of the Optical Society of America, 53, pp. 375–385 -->
* [[Stevens's power law]] – [[Stanley Smith Stevens]]
* [[Stewart's organs]] – [[Charles Stewart (zoologist)|Charles Stewart]]<!-- (1879) ''On certain organs of the Cidaridæ'', Trans. Linn. Soc. Ser. 2, 1:569–572 -->
* [[Stewart–Tolman effect]] – [[Thomas Dale Stewart (physicist)|Thomas Dale Stewart]] and [[Richard Chace Tolman]]
* [[Stigler's law of eponymy]] – [[Stephen Stigler]]
* [[Stirling number]] – [[James Stirling (mathematician)|James Stirling]]
* [[Stokes radius]] – [[George Gabriel Stokes]]
* [[Stokes shift]] – George Gabriel Stokes
* [[Stolper–Samuelson theorem]] – [[Paul Samuelson]] and [[Wolfgang Stolper]]
* [[Strömgren age]], [[Strömgren photometry|photometry]], [[Strömgren sphere|sphere]] – [[Bengt Georg Daniel Strömgren]]
* [[Strömgren–Crawford photometry]] – [[Bengt Georg Daniel Strömgren]] and [[David L. Crawford]]
* [[Stroop effect]] – [[John Ridley Stroop]]
* [[Strouhal number]] – [[Vincenc Strouhal]]
* [[Stueckelberg action]] – [[Ernst Carl Gerlach Stueckelberg]]
* [[Sturgeon's law]] – [[Theodore Sturgeon]]
* [[Sturmian trajectories]] – [[Charles François Sturm]]<!-- 1803–1855 -->
* [[Suess effect]] – [[Hans Eduard Suess]]
* [[Suess solar cycle]], [[DeVries solar cycle]], [[Suess-DeVries solar cycle]] – [[Hans Eduard Suess]] and [[Hessel de Vries]]
* [[Sunyaev–Zel'dovich effect]] – [[Rashid Sunyaev]] and [[Yakov Zel'dovich]]
* [[Syracuse problem]] – see [[Collatz conjecture]], above
* [[Szilard–Chalmers effect]] – [[Leó Szilárd]] and [[Thomas A. Chalmers]]

==T==
* [[Tait–Bryan angles]] (a.k.a. [[Cardan angles]], nautical angles) – [[Peter Guthrie Tait]] and [[George H. Bryan]]
* [[Talbot effect]] – [[William Henry Fox Talbot]]
* [[Tanimoto coefficient|Tanimoto coefficient, distance, measure, score, similarity]] – [[Taffee T. Tanimoto]]<!-- not [[Steven L. Tanimoto]] -->
* [[Taylor cone]] – [[Geoffrey Ingram Taylor]]
* [[Taylor-Couette flow]] – [[Geoffrey Ingram Taylor]] and [[Maurice Marie Alfred Couette]] 
* [[Teller–Ulam design]] – [[Edward Teller]] and [[Stanislaw Ulam]]
* [[Thévenin's theorem]] – [[Léon Charles Thévenin]]
* [[Thirring effect]] – see [[Lense–Thirring effect]], above
* [[Thomas precession]] – [[Llewellyn Thomas]]
* [[Thomas–Fermi approximation]], [[Density functional theory|model]] – [[Llewellyn Hilleth Thomas]] and [[Enrico Fermi]]
* [[Thomson cross-section]], [[Thomson effect|effect]] – [[William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin]]
* [[Thomson structure]] (a.k.a. [[Widmanstätten pattern]]) – [[William Thomson (mineralogist)|William (Guglielmo) Thomson]] (or [[Count Alois von Beckh Widmanstätten]])
* [[Thorndike's laws]] ([[Law of effect|of effect]], readiness, and exercise) – [[Edward L. Thorndike]]
* [[Thorson's rule]] – [[Gunnar Thorson]]
* [[Thouless energy]] – [[David J. Thouless]]
* [[Thwaites conjecture]] – see [[Collatz conjecture]], above
* [[Tiedemann's bodies]] – [[Friedrich Tiedemann]]<!-- (1816) Anatomie der Röhren-Holothurie, des Pomeranzfarbigen Seesterns, und Stein-Seeigels. [Anatomy of the tube holothurians, the orange seastars, and the stone sea urchins.] Joseph Thomannschen Buchdruckerei, Landshut, Germany. (Translated by A. Böttger and edited by J. M. Lawrence. Herizos Press, Tampa, FL) -->
* [[Tiffeneau–Demjanov rearrangement]] – [[Marc Tiffeneau]] and [[Nikolai Demyanov]]
* [[Tobin's q]] – [[James Tobin]]
* [[Tolman effects]] – [[Richard Chace Tolman]]<!-- There are 3 Tolman effects; 1) a cosmological relativistic effect whereby in order to retain local equilibrium in an external static or stationary metric, the local temperature must vary http://arxiv.org/pdf/hep-th/0106059 (attributable to R. C. Tolman, 1934) 2) an electric one, whereby the free electrons in a conductor are pushed to its rim by centrifugal action or other acceleration, causing a potential to appear (R. C. Tolman 1923) 3) an astronomical one, whereby an annulus surrounding a galaxy may be contaminated by faint outer regions that have dimmed below the noise level (R. C. Tolman 1930) -->
* [[Tolman–Oppenheimer–Volkoff limit]] – [[Richard Chace Tolman]], [[J. Robert Oppenheimer]], and [[George Michael Volkoff]]
* [[Tonks–Girardeau gas]] – [[Lewi Tonks]] and [[Marvin D. Girardeau]]
* [[Townsend effect]] (a.k.a. [[Ramsauer effect]], [[Ramsauer–Townsend effect]]), [[Townsend ionization coefficient|ionization coefficient]] – [[John Sealy Townsend]]
* [[Troxler's fading|Troxler's effect/fading]] – [[Ignaz Paul Vital Troxler]]
* [[Tychonoff space]] – [[Andrey Nikolayevich Tychonoff]]
* [[Tyndall effect|Tyndall effect/scattering]] – [[John Tyndall]]

==U==
* Ulam conjecture – see [[Collatz conjecture]]
* [[Ulam's packing conjecture]] – [[Stanislaw Ulam]]
* [[Unruh effect]] – [[William G. Unruh]]

==V==
* [[Vackář oscillator]]  – [[Jirí Vackář]] 
* [[Van Allen radiation belt]] – [[James Van Allen]]
* [[Van de Graaff generator]] – Dr. [[Robert Jemison Van de Graaff]]
* [[Van der Pol equation]], [[Van der Pol oscillator|oscillator]] – [[Balthasar van der Pol]]
* [[Van der Waals force]] – [[Johannes Diderik van der Waals]]
* [[Van Hove singularity]] – [[Léon Van Hove]]
* [[Vavilovian mimicry]] – [[Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov]]
* [[Veblen effect]] – [[Thorstein Veblen]]
* [[Veitch diagram]] – see [[Karnaugh map]], above
* [[Venturi effect]] – [[Giovanni Battista Venturi]]
* [[Venn diagram]] – [[John Venn]]
* [[Vieille's law]] (a.k.a. [[St. Robert's law]], often misspelled as Vielle's law) – [[Paul Marie Eugène Vieille]]<!-- https://books.google.ca/books?id=AK8zAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA1158 see also e.g. https://books.google.ca/books?id=KEPgEgX2BEEC&pg=PA103 -->
* [[Vierordt's law]] – [[Karl von Vierordt]]
* [[Vogel-Fulcher-Tammann equation]] – Hans Vogel, [[Gordon Scott Fulcher]], and [[Gustav Heinrich Johann Apollon Tammann|Gustav Tammann]]
* [[Vogt–Russell theorem]] – [[Heinrich Vogt (astronomer)|Heinrich Vogt]] and [[Henry Norris Russell]]
* [[Voigt effect]], [[Voigt notation|notation]], [[Voigt profile|profile]] – [[Woldemar Voigt]]
* [[Voigt material]] – see [[Kelvin–Voigt material]], above
* [[Von Klitzing constant]] – [[Klaus von Klitzing]]
* [[Von Neumann ordinal]], [[von Neumann architecture]] – [[John von Neumann]]
* [[Von Restorff effect]] – [[Hedwig von Restorff]]
* [[Von Zeipel theorem]] – [[Edvard Hugo von Zeipel]]

==W==
* [[Wadati–Benioff zone]] (a.k.a. [[Benioff zone]]) – [[Kiyoo Wadati]] and [[Hugo Benioff]]
* [[Wahlund effect]] – [[Sten Gösta William Wahlund]]
* [[Wallace's line]] – [[Alfred Russel Wallace]]
* [[Walras's law]] – [[Léon Walras]]
* [[Wannier function]], [[Wannier orbital|orbital]] – [[Gregory Wannier]]
* [[Wasserman 9-Panel Plot]] – [[Karlman Wasserman]]
* [[Superlattice#Wannier.E2.80.93Stark ladder|Wannier–Stark ladder]] (a.k.a. Stark ladder) – [[Gregory Wannier]] and [[Johannes Stark]]
* [[Warburg effect (oncology)|Warburg effect]] – [[Otto Heinrich Warburg|Otto Warburg]]
* [[Waring's problem]] (a.k.a. [[Hilbert–Waring theorem]]) – [[Edward Waring]] (and [[David Hilbert]])
* [[Weber–Fechner law]] (Weber's law, Fechner's law) – [[Ernst Heinrich Weber]] and [[Gustav Theodor Fechner]]
* [[Weberian apparatus]] – [[Ernst Heinrich Weber]]
* [[Weierstrass–Casorati theorem]] – [[Karl Theodor Wilhelm Weierstrass]] and [[Felice Casorati (mathematician)|Felice Casorati]]
* [[Weierstrass's elliptic functions]], [[Weierstrass factorization theorem|factorization theorem]], [[Weierstrass function|function]], [[Weierstrass M-test|M-test]], [[Weierstrass preparation theorem|preparation theorem]] – [[Karl Theodor Wilhelm Weierstrass]]
* [[Wien bridge]] – [[Max Wien]]
* [[Weissenberg effect]] – [[Karl Weissenberg]]
* [[Wess–Zumino–Witten model]] – [[Julius Wess]], [[Bruno Zumino]] and [[Edward Witten]]
* [[Wess–Zumino model]] – [[Julius Wess]], [[Bruno Zumino]]
* [[Westermarck effect]] – [[Edvard Westermarck]]
* [[Weston cell]] – [[Edward Weston (chemist)|Edward Weston]]
* [[Wheatstone bridge]] – [[Charles Wheatstone]] (improved and popularized it; the inventor was [[Samuel Hunter Christie]])
* [[Whittaker function]], [[Whittaker integral|integral]], [[Whittaker model|model]] – [[Edmund Taylor Whittaker]]
* [[Whittaker–Shannon interpolation formula]] – [[Edmund Taylor Whittaker]], [[John Macnaghten Whittaker]], [[Claude Shannon]]
* [[Widmanstätten pattern]] (a.k.a. [[Thomson structure]]) – [[Count Alois von Beckh Widmanstätten]] (or [[William Thomson (mineralogist)|William (Guglielmo) Thomson]])
* [[Widom line]] – [[Benjamin Widom]]
* [[Widrow–Hoff least mean squares filter]] – [[Bernard Widrow]] and [[Ted Hoff]]
* [[Wiedemann–Franz law]] – [[Gustav Wiedemann]] and [[Rudolf Franz]]
* [[Wiegand effect]] – [[John R. Wiegand]]
* [[Wien bridge]] ([[Wien's bridge]]), [[Wien's displacement constant|constant]], [[Wien effect|effect]], [[Wien's displacement law|law]] – [[Wilhelm Wien]]
* [[Wiener filter]], [[Wiener process|process]] – [[Norbert Wiener]]
* [[Wigmore chart]] – [[John Henry Wigmore]]
* [[Wigner energy]], [[Wigner effect]] – [[Eugene Wigner]]
* [[Wigner–Seitz cell]] – [[Eugene Wigner]] and [[Frederick Seitz]]
* [[Wilson cycle]] – [[John Tuzo Wilson]]
* [[Wilson effect]] – [[Alexander Wilson (mathematician)|Alexander Wilson]]
* [[Wilson–Bappu effect]] – [[Olin Chaddock Wilson]] and [[Manali Kallat Vainu Bappu]]
* [[Witten index]] – [[Edward Witten]]
* [[Wollaston prism]] – [[William Hyde Wollaston]]
* [[Woodward–Hoffmann rules]] – [[Robert Burns Woodward]] and [[Roald Hoffmann]]
* [[Wolf effect]] – [[Emil Wolf]]
* [[Wulf bands]] – [[Oliver R. Wulf]]
* [[Wulff–Dötz reaction]] – [[William Wulff]] and [[Karl Heinz Dötz]]

==Y==
* [[Yarkovsky effect]] – [[Ivan Osipovich Yarkovsky]]
* [[YORP effect]] – [[Ivan Osipovich Yarkovsky]], [[John A. O'Keefe (astronomer)|John A. O'Keefe]], [[Vladimir Vyacheslavovich Radzievskii]], and [[Stephen J. Paddack]]
* [[Young diagram]] (a.k.a. [[Ferrers diagram]]), [[Young tableau]] – [[Alfred Young (mathematician)|Alfred Young]]
* [[Young's modulus]] – [[Thomas Young (scientist)|Thomas Young]]
* [[Yule–Simpson effect]] (a.k.a. [[Simpson's paradox]]) – [[Edward H. Simpson]] and [[Udny Yule]]

==Z==
* [[Zeeman effect]] – [[Pieter Zeeman]]
* [[Zeigarnik effect]] – [[Bluma Zeigarnik]]
* [[Zener effect]] – [[Clarence Melvin Zener]]
* [[Quantum Zeno effect|Zeno effect]] – [[Zeno of Elea]]
* [[Zipf's law]] – [[George K. Zipf]]
* [[Zipf–Mandelbrot law]] (a.k.a. [[Pareto–Zipf law]]) – [[George K. Zipf]] and [[Benoît Mandelbrot]] (or [[Vilfredo Pareto]])

==See also==
* [[Eponym]]s
* [[Fields of science]]
* [[List of eponymous laws]]
* [[List of eponymously named medical signs|List of eponymous medical signs]]
* [[Lists of scientists|List of scientists]]
* [[Lists of etymologies]]
* [[List of eponymous diseases]]
* [[List of fluid flows named after people]]
* [[List of hydrodynamic instabilities|List of hydrodynamic instabilities named after people]]
* [[List of waves named after people]]
* [[Scientific constants named after people]]
* [[Scientific laws named after people]]

==References==
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[[Category:Lists of eponyms]]
[[Category:Science-related lists]]
[[Category:Lists of things named after scientists]]