SCIENTIFIC LAWS NAME AFTER PEOPLE

This is a list of scientific laws named after people (eponymous laws). For other lists of eponyms, see eponym.

Law	Field	Person(s) Named After
Abel's theorem	Calculus	Niels Henrik Abel
Amdahl's law	Computer science	Gene Amdahl
Ampère's circuital law	Physics	André-Marie Ampère
Archie's law	Geology	Gus Archie
Archimedes' principle	Physics	Archimedes
Arrhenius equation	Chemical kinetics	Svante Arrhenius
Avogadro's law	Thermodynamics	Amedeo Avogadro
Beer–Lambert law	Optics	August Beer, Johann Heinrich Lambert
Bernoulli's principle Bernoulli's equation	Physical sciences	Daniel Bernoulli
Biot–Savart law	Electromagnetics, fluid dynamics	Jean Baptiste Biot and Felix Savart
Birch's law	Geophysics	Francis Birch
Bogoliubov–Born–Green–Kirkwood–Yvon hierarchy	Physics	Nikolay Bogoliubov, Max Born, Herbert Green, John Kirkwood, and J. Yvon
Bogoliubov transformation	Quantum mechanics	Nikolay Bogoliubov
Boltzmann equation	Thermodynamics	Ludwig Boltzmann
Boyle's law	Thermodynamics	Robert Boyle
Bradford's law	Computer science	Samuel C. Bradford
Buys Ballot's law	Meteorology	C.H.D. Buys Ballot
Byerlee's law	Geophysics	James Byerlee
Carnot's theorem	Thermodynamics	Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot
Cauchy's integral formula Cauchy–Riemann equations	Complex analysis	Augustin Louis Cauchy Augustin Louis Cauchy and Bernhard Riemann
Cayley–Hamilton theorem	Linear algebra	Arthur Cayley and William Hamilton
Charles's law	Thermodynamics	Jacques Charles
Church–Turing thesis	Computer science	Alonzo Church and Alan Turing
Coulomb's law	Physics	Charles Augustin de Coulomb
Law of Charles and Gay-Lussac (frequently called Charles's law)	Thermodynamics	Jacques Charles and Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac
Dalton's law of partial pressure	Thermodynamics	John Dalton
Darcy's Law	Fluid mechanics	Henry Darcy
De Morgan's law	Logic	Augustus De Morgan
Dermott's Law	Celestial mechanics	Stanley Dermott
Descartes' theorem	Geometry	René Descartes
Dirac equation	Physics	Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac
Drake equation	Cosmology	Frank Drake
Einstein's general theory of relativity Einstein's special theory of relativity	Physics	Albert Einstein
Euclid's theorem	Number theory	Euclid
Euler's theorem	Number theory	Leonhard Euler
Faraday's law of induction Faraday's law of electrolysis	Electromagnetism Chemistry	Michael Faraday
Faxén's law	Fluid dynamics	Hilding Faxén
Fermat's principle Fermat's last theorem Fermat's little theorem	Optics Number theory Number theory	Pierre de Fermat
Fermi paradox	Cosmology	Enrico Fermi
Fick's law of diffusion	Thermodynamics	Adolf Fick
Fitts's law	Ergonomics	Paul Fitts
Fourier's law	Thermodynamics	Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier
Gauss' law	Physics	Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss
Gibbs–Helmholtz equation	Thermodynamics	Josiah Willard Gibbs, Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz
Gödel's incompleteness theorems	Mathematics	Kurt Gödel
Graham's law	Thermodynamics	Thomas Graham
Grimm's law	Linguistics	Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Heisenberg's uncertainty principle	Theoretical physics	Werner Heisenberg
Hellmann–Feynman theorem	Physics	Hans Hellmann, Richard Feynman
Henry's law	Thermodynamics	William Henry
Hess's law	Thermodynamics	Germain Henri Hess
Hohenberg–Kohn theorem	Quantum mechanics	Pierre Hohenberg and Walter Kohn
Hooke's law	Physics	Robert Hooke
Hopkinson's law	Electromagnetism	John Hopkinson
Hubble's law	Cosmology	Edwin Hubble
Huygens–Fresnel principle	Optics	Christiaan Huygens and Augustin-Jean Fresnel
Joule's laws	Physics	James Joule
Jurin's law	Physics	James Jurin
Kasha's rule	Photochemistry	Michael Kasha
Kepler's laws of planetary motion	Astrophysics	Johannes Kepler
Kirchhoff's laws	Electronics, thermodynamics	Gustav Kirchhoff
Kopp's Law	Thermodynamics	Hermann Franz Moritz Kopp
Lamm equation	Chemistry, Biophysics	Ole Lamm
Le Chatelier's principle	Chemistry	Henri Louis le Chatelier
Leibniz's law	Ontology	Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Lenz's law	Physics	Heinrich Lenz
Leonard–Merritt mass estimator	Astrophysics	Peter Leonard, David Merritt
l'Hôpital's rule	Mathematics	Guillaume de l'Hôpital
Markovnikov's rule	Organic Chemistry	Vladimir Markovnikov
Maxwell's equations Maxwell relations	Electrodynamics Thermodynamics	James Clerk Maxwell
Metcalfe's law	Network theory	Robert Metcalfe
Mikheyev–Smirnov–Wolfenstein effect	Particle Physics	Stanislav Mikheyev, Alexei Smirnov, and Lincoln Wolfenstein
Minkowski's theorem	Number theory	Hermann Minkowski
Moore's law	Computing	Gordon Moore
Nash embedding theorem Nash equilibrium	Topology Game Theory	John Forbes Nash
Nernst equation	Electrochemistry	Walther Nernst
Newton's law of cooling Newton's law of universal gravitation Newton's laws of motion	Thermodynamics Astrophysics Mechanics	Isaac Newton
Noether's theorem	Theoretical physics	Emmy Noether
Nurgaliev's law	Demography	Nurgaliev's law
Nyquist–Shannon sampling theorem	Information theory	Harry Nyquist, Claude Elwood Shannon
Occam's Razor	Philosophy of science	William of Ockham
Ohm's law	Electronics	Georg Ohm
Osipkov–Merritt law	Astrophysics	Leonid Osipkov, David Merritt
Pascal's law Pascal's theorem	Physics Geometry	Blaise Pascal
Pareto distribution Pareto efficiency Pareto index Pareto principle	Economics	Vilfredo Pareto
Pauli exclusion principle	Quantum mechanics	Wolfgang Pauli
Peano axioms	Foundational mathematics	Giuseppe Peano
Planck's law	Electromagnetism	Max Planck
Poiseuille's law	Fluidics	Jean Louis Marie Poiseuille
Poisson distribution Poisson's equation	Statistics Calculus	Siméon Denis Poisson
Ptolemy's theorem	Geometry	Ptolemy
Pythagorean theorem	Geometry	Pythagoras
Raman scattering	Physics	Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
Raoult's law	Physical chemistry	Francois Marie Raoult
Riemann zeta function Riemann hypothesis Riemann integral Riemann lemma Riemannian manifold Riemann sphere Riemann theta function	Number theory, analysis, geometry	Bernhard Riemann
Rolle's theorem	Differential calculus	Michel Rolle
Schrödinger equation	Physics	Erwin Schrödinger
Sérsic's law	Astrophysics	J. L. Sérsic
Snell's law	Optics	Willebrord van Roijen Snell
Sokolov–Ternov effect	Particle Physics	Arsenij Sokolov and Igor Ternov
Sommerfeld–Kossel displacement law	Spectroscopy	Arnold Sommerfeld and Walther Kossel
Stefan–Boltzmann law	Thermodynamics	Jožef Stefan and Ludwig Boltzmann
Stokes' law	Fluid mechanics	George Gabriel Stokes
Stoletov's law	Photoelectric effect	Aleksandr Stoletov
Titius–Bode law	Astrophysics	Johann Daniel Titius and Johann Elert Bode
Torricelli's law	Physics	Evangelista Torricelli
Umov effect	Physics	Nikolay Umov
Van der Waals equation	Chemistry	Johannes Diderik van der Waals
Vlasov equation	Plasma physics	Anatoly Vlasov
Young–Laplace equation	Fluid dynamics	Thomas Young and Pierre-Simon Laplace
Wien's law	Physics	Wilhelm Wien
Zipf's law	Linguistics	George Kingsley Zipf