Scientific laws named after people - Definition and Overview

This is a list of scientific laws named after people. For other lists of eponyms (names derived from people) see Lists of etymologies.

• Ampère's law – André-Marie Ampère
• Avogadro's law – Amedeo Avogadro
• Bernoulli's principle – Daniel Bernoulli
• Boyle's law – Robert Boyle
• Buys-Ballot's law – C.H.D. Buys Ballot
• Church-Turing-Deutsch principle – Alonzo Church, Alan Turing, David Deutsch
• Coulomb's law – Charles Augustin de Coulomb
• Law of Charles and Gay-Lussac (frequently called simply Charles' Law) – Jacques Charles and Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac
• Faraday's law of induction – Michael Faraday
• Faraday's law of electrolysis – Michael Faraday
• Gauss' law – Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss
• Gibbs free energy – Josiah Willard Gibbs
• Gödel's incompleteness theorem – Kurt Gödel
• Graham's law – Thomas Graham
• Henry's law – William Henry
• Hooke's law – Robert Hooke
• Kepler's laws of planetary motion – Johannes Kepler
• Kirchhoff's laws – Gustav Kirchhoff
• Linus's law – Linus Torvalds
• 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
• Peano axioms – Giuseppe Peano
• Planck's law of black body radiation – Max Planck
• Poiseuille's law – Jean Louis Marie Poiseuille
• Stefan-Boltzmann law – Jožef Stefan and Ludwig Boltzmann
• Titius-Bode law – Johann Daniel Titius and Johann Elert Bode
• Wien's law – Wilhelm Wien
• Zipf's law – George Kingsley Zipf

See also

• Scientific phenomena named after people
• List of science topics
• List of laws in science