| Law | Field | Person(s) Named After |
|---|
| Calculus | Niels Henrik Abel |
| Ariadne's thread | Computer science | Ariadne |
| Computer science | Gene Amdahl |
| Physics | André-Marie Ampère |
| Geology | Gus Archie |
Archimedes's principle
Axiom of Archimedes | Physics
Analysis | Archimedes |
| Chemical kinetics | Svante Arrhenius |
| Thermodynamics | Amedeo Avogadro |
| Quantum mechanics | John Stewart Bell |
| Mathematics | Frank Benford |
| Optics | August Beer, Johann Heinrich Lambert |
| Physical sciences | Daniel Bernoulli |
| Electromagnetics, fluid dynamics | Jean Baptiste Biot and Félix Savart |
| Geophysics | Francis Birch |
| Physics | Nikolay Bogoliubov, Max Born, Herbert Green, John Kirkwood, and J. Yvon |
| Quantum mechanics | Nikolay Bogoliubov |
| Thermodynamics | Ludwig Boltzmann |
| Quantum mechanics | Max Born |
| Thermodynamics | Robert Boyle |
| Bragg's Law | Physics | William Lawrence Bragg, William Henry Bragg |
| Computer science | Samuel C. Bradford |
| Bruun Rule | Earth science | Per Bruun |
| Meteorology | C.H.D. Buys Ballot |
| Geophysics | James Byerlee |
| 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 |
| Linear algebra | Arthur Cayley and William Hamilton |
| Thermodynamics | Jacques Charles |
| Astrophysics | Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar |
| Computer science | Alonzo Church and Alan Turing |
| Physics | Charles Augustin de Coulomb |
| Law of Charles and Gay-Lussac (frequently called Charles's law) | Thermodynamics | Jacques Charles and Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac |
| Algebraic geometry, Geometry | William Kingdon Clifford |
| Physics | Pierre Curie |
| Physics | Pierre Curie and Pierre-Ernest Weiss |
| Fluid dynamics, Physics | Jean le Rond d'Alembert |
| Dalton's law of partial pressure | Thermodynamics | John Dalton |
| Fluid mechanics | Henry Darcy |
| Mathematics | Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn and Paul Erdős |
| Logic | Augustus De Morgan |
| Celestial mechanics | Stanley Dermott |
| 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 |
| Cosmology | Frank Drake |
| Physics | Christian Doppler |
| 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 |
| Physical chemistry | Mostafa El-Sayed |
Erdős–Anning theorem
See also: List of things named after Paul Erdős | Mathematics | Paul Erdős and Norman H. Anning |
| Mathematics | Paul Erdős and József Beck |
| Mathematics | Paul Erdős and Tibor Gallai |
| Mathematics | Paul Erdős and Mark Kac |
| Mathematics | Paul Erdős, Ke Zhao, and Richard Rado |
| Mathematics | Paul Erdős and Béla Szőkefalvi-Nagy |
| Mathematics | Paul Erdős and Richard Rado |
| Mathematics | Paul Erdős and Arthur Harold Stone |
| Mathematics | Paul Erdős and George Szekeres |
| Mathematics | Paul Erdős and Endre Szemerédi |
| Number theory | Euclid |
Euler's theorem
See also: List of things named after Leonhard Euler | Number theory | Leonhard Euler |
| Electromagnetism
Chemistry | Michael Faraday |
| | Hilding Faxén |
| 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 |
| Thermodynamics | Adolf Fick |
| Ergonomics | Paul Fitts |
| 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 |
| Chemistry | Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac |
| Thermodynamics | Josiah Willard Gibbs, Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz |
| Mathematics | Kurt Gödel |
| Thermodynamics | Thomas Graham |
| Fluid dynamics | George Green |
| Linguistics | Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm |
| Computer science | John L. Gustafson |
| Theoretical physics | Werner Heisenberg |
| Linguistics | Harold Stanley Heaps |
| Physics | Hans Hellmann, Richard Feynman |
| Thermodynamics | William Henry |
| Electromagnetism | Heinrich Hertz |
| Thermodynamics | Germain Henri Hess |
| Mathematics | David Hilbert |
| 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 |
| Physics | John Herbert Hollomon |
| Physics | Robert Hooke |
| Electromagnetism | John Hopkinson |
| Cosmology | Edwin Hubble |
| Atomic physics | Friedrich Hund |
| Optics | Christiaan Huygens and Augustin-Jean Fresnel |
| Physics | James Joule |
| Physics | James Jurin |
| Photochemistry | Michael Kasha |
| Astrophysics | Johannes Kepler |
| Electronics, thermodynamics | Gustav Kirchhoff |
| Thermodynamics | Hermann Franz Moritz Kopp |
| Larmor formula | Physics | Joseph Larmor |
| 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 |
| Physics | Johann Heinrich Lambert |
| Chemistry, Biophysics | Ole Lamm |
| 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 |
| Chemistry | Henri Louis le Chatelier |
| Ontology | Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz |
| Physics | Heinrich Lenz |
| Astrophysics | Peter Leonard, David Merritt |
| Mathematics | Guillaume de l'Hôpital |
| Neuroscience | Rodolfo Llinás |
| Physics | P. Ludwik |
| Physics | Ernst Mach |
| Radio technology | Guglielmo Marconi |
| Organic chemistry | Vladimir Markovnikov |
| Mathematics | Pierre Louis Maupertuis |
| Electrodynamics
Thermodynamics | James Clerk Maxwell |
| McCulloch's Iron Laws of Conferences | Education | Alistair McCulloch |
| Genetics | Gregor Mendel |
| Network theory | Robert Metcalfe |
| Particle physics | Stanislav Mikheyev, Alexei Smirnov, and Lincoln Wolfenstein |
| Mathematical logic | Eric Charles Milner and Richard Rado |
| Number theory | Hermann Minkowski |
| Crystallography
Condensed matter physics | Eilhard Mitscherlich |
| Computing | Gordon Moore |
Nash embedding theorem
Nash equilibrium | Topology
Game Theory | John Forbes Nash |
| 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 |
| Mathematics | Ivan Niven |
| Theoretical physics | Emmy Noether |
| Information theory | Harry Nyquist, Claude Elwood Shannon |
| Philosophy of science | William of Ockham |
| Electronics | Georg Ohm |
| Astrophysics | Leonid Osipkov, David Merritt |
| Physical chemistry | Wilhelm Ostwald |
| Mathematics | Raymond Paley and Norbert Wiener |
| Economics | Vilfredo Pareto |
| Physics
Geometry | Blaise Pascal |
| Quantum mechanics | Wolfgang Pauli |
| Foundational mathematics | Giuseppe Peano |
| Electromagnetism | Max Planck |
| Mathematics | Henri Poincaré and Ivar Otto Bendixson |
| Mathematics | Henri Poincaré, George David Birkhoff, and Ernst Witt |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Natural selection | George R. Price |
| Geometry | Ptolemy |
| Geometry | Pythagoras |
| Physics | Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman |
| Discrete mathematics | Richard Rado |
Ramanujan–Nagell equation
See also: List of things named after Srinivasa Ramanujan | Mathematics | Srinivasa Ramanujan and Trygve Nagell |
| 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 |
| Differential calculus | Michel Rolle |
| Plasma physics | Meghnad Saha |
| Physics | Erwin Schrödinger |
| Physics, Electronincs | Thomas Johann Seebeck |
| Astrophysics | José Luis Sérsic |
| Optics | Willebrord van Roijen Snell |
| Particle Physics | Arsenij Sokolov and Igor Ternov |
| Spectroscopy | Arnold Sommerfeld and Walther Kossel |
| Thermodynamics | Jožef Stefan and Ludwig Boltzmann |
| Fluid mechanics | George Gabriel Stokes |
| Photoelectric effect | Aleksandr Stoletov |
| 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 |
| Geometry | Thales |
| Astrophysics | Johann Daniel Titius and Johann Elert Bode |
| Physics | Evangelista Torricelli |
| Physics | Nikolay Umov |
| Chemistry | Johannes Diderik van der Waals |
| Plasma physics | Anatoly Vlasov |
| 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 |
| Quantum Gravity | Steven Weinberg and Edward Witten |
Weyl character formula
See also: List of things named after Hermann Weyl | Mathematics | Hermann Weyl |
| Physics | Wilhelm Wien |
| Mathematics | Norbert Wiener and Aleksandr Khinchin |
| Fluid dynamics | Thomas Young and Pierre-Simon Laplace |
| Physics | Clarence Zener and John Herbert Hollomon |
| Linguistics | George Kingsley Zipf | |
