Scientific laws named after people

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This is a list of scientific laws named after people (eponymous laws) [[1]] ). For other lists of eponyms, see eponym [[2]].

Law	Person(s) Named After
Amdahl's law	Gene Amdahl
Ampère's law	André-Marie Ampère
Avogadro's law	Amedeo Avogadro
Beer-Lambert law	August Beer, Johann Heinrich Lambert
Bernoulli's principle Bernoulli's equation	Daniel Bernoulli
Biot-Savart law	Jean Baptiste Biot and Felix Savart
Boyle's law	Robert Boyle
Bradford's law	Samuel C. Bradford
Buys-Ballot's law	C.H.D. Buys Ballot
Church-Turing thesis	Alonzo Church and Alan Turing
Coulomb's law	Charles Augustin de Coulomb
Law of Charles and Gay-Lussac (frequently called Charles's Law)	Jacques Charles and Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac
Einstein's General Theory of Relativity	Albert Einstein
Faraday's law of induction	Michael Faraday
Riemann zeta function	Bernhard Riemann
Riemann hypothesis	Bernhard Riemann
Riemann integral	Bernhard Riemann
Riemann lemma	Bernhard Riemann
Riemannian manifold	Bernhard Riemann
Riemann sphere	Bernhard Riemann
Riemann theta function	Bernhard Riemann
Faraday's law of electrolysis	Michael Faraday
Fick's law of diffusion	Adolf Fick
Fourier's law	Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier
Gauss' law	Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss
Gibbs free energy	Willard Gibbs
Gödel's incompleteness theorem	Kurt Gödel
Graham's law	Thomas Graham
Henry's law	William Henry
Hooke's law	Robert Hooke
Hubble's law	Edwin Hubble
Kepler's laws of planetary motion	Johannes Kepler
Kirchhoff's laws	Gustav Kirchhoff
Le Chatelier's principle	Henri Louis le Chatelier
Metcalfe's law	Robert Metcalfe
Minkowski's theorem	Hermann Minkowski
Moore's law	Gordon Moore
Nash embedding theorem	John Forbes Nash
Newton's law of cooling	Isaac Newton
Newton's law of gravitation	Isaac Newton
Newton's laws of motion	Isaac Newton
Noether's theorem	Emmy Noether
Occam's Razor	William of Ockham
Ohm's law	Georg Ohm
Pascal's theorem	Blaise Pascal
Pareto distribution	Vilfredo Pareto
Pareto efficiency	Vilfredo Pareto
Pareto index	Vilfredo Pareto
Pareto principle	Vilfredo Pareto
Pauli exclusion principle	Wolfgang Pauli
Peano axioms	Giuseppe Peano
Planck's law of black body radiation	Max Planck
Poiseuille's law	Jean Louis Marie Poiseuille
Snell's law	Willebrord van Roijen Snell
Stefan-Boltzmann law	Jožef Stefan and Ludwig Boltzmann
Stokes' law	George Gabriel Stokes
Titius-Bode law	Johann Daniel Titius and Johann Elert Bode
Wien's law	Wilhelm Wien
Zipf's law	George Kingsley Zipf

[edit] See also

• Eponym [[3]]
• List of eponymous laws [[4]]- overlaps with this list but includes non-scientific laws such as Murphy's law [[5]]
• Lists of etymologies [[6]]
• Scientific phenomena named after people [[7]]
• List of laws in science [[8]]
• List of science topics [[9]]

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