List of scientific constants named after people explained

This is a list of physical and mathematical constants named after people.^[1] Eponymous constants and their influence on scientific citations have been discussed in the literature.^[2]

• 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 (

\gamma ) – Leonhard Euler and Lorenzo Mascheroni

• Euler's number (

e ) – 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,

\phi , phi) – Phidias

• Meissel–Mertens constant
• Moser's number
• Newtonian constant of gravitation (gravitational constant,

G ) – Sir Isaac Newton

• Planck constant (

h ) – Max Planck

• Reduced Planck constant or Dirac constant (

h -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 ( ≅ ±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

1. "Reflections on the Natural History of Eponymy and Scientific Law", Donald deB. Beaver, Social Studies of Science, volume 6, number 1 (February 1976), pages 89–98.
2. http://jis.sagepub.com/content/20/1/55.full.pdf Non-indexed Eponymal Citedness (NIEC): First Fact-finding Examination of a Phenomenon of Scientific Literature