Scientific phenomena named after people - Definition and Overview

This is a list of scientific phenomena named after people.

For other lists of eponyms (names derived from people) see eponym.

For a list of eponyms sorted by name see List of eponyms.

• Brownian motion – Robert Brown
• Casimir effect – Hendrik Casimir
• Cherenkov effect – Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov
• Coanda effect – Henri Coanda
• Compton effect – Arthur Compton
• Coriolis effect – Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis
• Curie point – Pierre Curie
• Doppler effect – Christian Doppler
• Doppler profile – Christian Doppler
• Edison effect – Thomas Edison
• Fermi energy, Fermi paradox – Enrico Fermi
• Gibbs phenomenon – Josiah Willard Gibbs
• Hall effect – Edwin Hall
• Josephson effect – Brian David Josephson
• Kennelly-Heaviside layer – Arthur Edwin Kennelly and Oliver Heaviside
• Kerr effect – John Kerr (physicist)
• Kuiper Belt – Gerard Kuiper
• Landau damping – Lev Davidovich Landau
• Landau pole – Lev Davidovich Landau
• Lennard-Jones potential – John Lennard-Jones
• London force – Fritz London
• Lorentz force – Hendrik Lorentz
• Meissner effect (or Meissner-Ochsenfeld effect) – Walter Meissner (and Robert Ochsenfeld)
• Morse potential – Philip M. Morse
• Mossbauer effect – Rudolf Mössbauer
• Newton's rings – Isaac Newton
• Oort Cloud – Jan Oort
• Pauli exclusion principle – Wolfgang Pauli
• Peltier effect – Jean Charles Athanase Peltier
• Pockels effect – Friedrich Carl Alwin Pockels
• Raman effect – C. V. Raman
• Rayleigh scattering – Lord Rayleigh
• Runge's phenomenon – Carle David Tolmé Runge
• St. Elmo's fire – Saint Elmo
• Seebeck effect – Thomas Seebeck
• Stark effect – Johannes Stark
• Sunyaev-Zeldovic effect – Rashid Sunyaev and Yakov B. Zeldovic
• Tesla effect – Nikola Tesla
• Van Allen radiation belt – James Van Allen
• Van der Waals force – Johannes Diderik van der Waals
• Zeeman effect – Pieter Zeeman

See also

• Scientific laws named after people
• List of scientists
• List of science topics