Scientific phenomena named after people
This is a list of scientific phenomena named after people (eponymous phenomena). For other lists of eponyms, see eponym.
The list
A to J
- Abney effect – W. Abney
- Abrikosov lattice – Alexei Abrikosov
- Aharonov-Bohm effect – Yakir Aharonov and David Bohm
- Allais effect – Maurice Allais
- Allee effect – W. C. Allee
- Auger electron – Pierre Victor Auger
- Balmer line – Johann Jakob Balmer
- Barnett effect – S. J. Barnett
- Barkhausen effect – Heinrich Barkhausen
- Baskerville effect – the fictional Charles Baskerville of the novel The Hound of the Baskervilles
- Benioff zone (also called Wadati-Benioff zone) – Hugo Benioff and Kiyoo Wadati
- Bernoulli's principle – Daniel Bernoulli
- Betz limit – Albert Betz
- Biefeld-Brown effect – Paul Alfred Biefeld and Thomas Townsend Brown
- Bloch wave – Felix Bloch
- Bohr model – Neils Bohr
- Bose-Einstein condensate, Bose-Einstein statistics – Satyendra Nath Bose and Albert Einstein
- Boson, Satyendra Nath Bose
- Brackett lines – Frederick Sumner Brackett
- Bragg diffraction – William Lawrence Bragg
- Bragg angle, Bragg plane – William Henry Bragg and his son William Lawrence Bragg
- Brewster's angle – David Brewster
- Brillouin zone – Leon Brillouin
- Brownian motion – Robert Brown
- Calvin cycle, or Calvin-Benson cycle – Melvin Calvin and Andy Benson
- Carnot cycle – Nicolas Leonard Sadi Carnot
- Casimir effect – Hendrik Casimir
- Chandrasekhar limit – Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
- Cherenkov radiation – Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov
- Christofilos effect – Nicholas Christofilos
- Clarke orbit – Arthur C. Clarke
- Coanda effect – Henri Coanda
- Compton effect, Compton scattering – Arthur Compton
- Cooper pair – Leon Cooper
- Coriolis effect – Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis
- Curie point – Pierre Curie
- De Broglie wavelength – Louis de Broglie
- Doppler effect, Doppler profile – Christian Doppler
- Eagle effect – Harry Eagle
- Early effect – James Early
- Edison effect – Thomas Edison
- Einstein-de Haas effect – Albert Einstein and Wander Johannes de Haas
- Eddington limit – Arthur Eddington
- Evershed effect – John Evershed
- Faraday effect – Michael Faraday
- Fermat's principle, – Pierre de Fermat
- Fermi energy, Fermi paradox, Fermi surface, Fermion – Enrico Fermi
- Fermi-Dirac statistics – Enrico Fermi and Paul Dirac
- Fraunhofer lines, Fraunhofer diffraction – Joseph von Fraunhofer
- Fresnel zone – Augustin Fresnel
- Frey effect – Allan H. Frey
- Froude number – William Froude
- Fujiwhara effect – Sakuhei Fujiwhara
- Gibbs phenomenon – Josiah Willard Gibbs
- Grashof number – Franz Grashof
- Hall effect – Edwin Hall
- Hayflick limit – Leonard Hayflick
- Heisenberg uncertainty principle – Werner Heisenberg
- Hertz effect – Heinrich Hertz
- Heusler alloy – Fritz Heusler
- Higgs Field, Higgs boson – Peter Higgs
- Hubble constant, Hubble expansion – Edwin Hubble
- Huygens' principle – Christiaan Huygens
- Jahn-Teller effect – ? Jahn and Edward Teller
- Josephson effect, Josephson junction – Brian David Josephson
- Joule-Thomson effect – James Prescott Joule and William Thomson
K to P
- Kapitsa-Dirac effect – Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa and Paul Dirac
- Kennelly-Heaviside layer – Arthur Edwin Kennelly and Oliver Heaviside
- Keeling Curve – Charles David Keeling
- Kerr effect – John Kerr (physicist)
- Kirkendall effect – Ernest Kirkendall
- Kohn-Sham equations– Walter Kohn and Lu Jeu Sham
- Kohn effect – Walter Kohn
- Krebs cycle – Hans Adolf Krebs
- Kuiper Belt – Gerard Kuiper
- Lagrangian mechanics, Lagrange points – Joseph Louis Lagrange
- Landau damping, Landau pole – Lev Davidovich Landau
- Lennard-Jones potential – John Lennard-Jones
- Lense-Thirring effect – Josef Lense and Hans Thirring
- Little-Parks effect – W. A. Little and R. D. Parks
- London force – Fritz London
- Lorentz force – Hendrik Lorentz
- Loschmidt's paradox – Johann Loschmidt
- Love waves – Augustus Love
- Marangoni effect – Carlo Marangoni
- Magnus effect – Heinrich Gustav Magnus
- Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution – James Clark Maxwell and Ludwig Boltzmann
- McGurk effect – Harry McGurk
- Meissner effect (or Meissner-Ochsenfeld effect) – Walter Meissner (and Robert Ochsenfeld)
- Metonic cycle – 4th Century BC astronomer Meton
- Mikheyev-Smirnov-Wolfenstein effect
- Misznay-Schardin effect – ? Miznay and Hubert Schardin
- Mohorovičić discontinuity (Moho) – Andrija Mohorovičić
- Morse potential – Philip M. Morse
- Mossbauer effect – Rudolf Mössbauer
- Mpemba effect – Erasto B. Mpemba
- Munroe effect – Charles E. Munroe
- Newton's rings, Newtonian mechanics – Isaac Newton
- Oort cloud (or Öpik-Oort Cloud) – Jan Oort (Ernst Julius Öpik)
- Pauli exclusion principle – Wolfgang Pauli
- Peltier effect – Jean Charles Athanase Peltier
- Petkau effect – Abram Petkau
- Pearson-Anson effect – S O Pearson and H St G Anson
- Planck mass, Planck length – Max Planck
- Pockels effect – Friedrich Carl Alwin Pockels
- Poynting vector – John Henry Poynting
- Poynting-Robertson effect – John Henry Poynting and Howard Percy Robertson
- Pulfrich effect – Carl Pulfrich
R to Z
- Raman scattering – Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
- Rayleigh scattering, Rayleigh fading, Rayleigh waves – Lord Rayleigh
- Richardson number – Lewis Fry Richardson
- Roche limit – Edouard Rouche
- Runge's phenomenon – Carle David Tolmé Runge
- Sagnac effect – Georges Sagnac
- St. Elmo's fire – Saint Elmo
- Schwarzschild metric, Schwarzschild radius – Karl Schwarzschild
- Schottky effect – Walter H. Schottky
- Seebeck effect – Thomas Johann Seebeck
- Shapiro effect – Irwin Shapiro
- Stark effect, Stark ladder – Johannes Stark
- Stroop effect – John Ridley Stroop
- Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect – Rashid Sunyaev and Yakov Zel'dovich
- Tesla effect – Nikola Tesla
- Thomas precession – Llewellyn Thomas
- Thomas-Fermi model – Enrico Fermi and Llewellyn Thomas
- Van Allen radiation belt – James Van Allen
- Van der Waals force – Johannes Diderik van der Waals
- Venturi effect – Giovanni Battista Venturi
- Von Restorff effect – Hedwig von Restorff
- Wadati-Benioff zone (or just Benioff zone) – Kiyoo Wadati and Hugo Benioff
- Wannier orbital – Gregory Wannier
- Wannier-Stark ladder (sometimes just Stark ladder) – Gregory Wannier and Johannes Stark
- Wigner energy, Wigner effect – Eugene Wigner
- Wigner-Seitz cell – Eugene Wigner and Frederick Seitz
- Wilson Cycle – John Tuzo Wilson
- Woodward effect – James F. Woodward
- Yarkovsky effect – Ivan Osipovich Yarkovsky
- Zeeman effect – Pieter Zeeman