Law |
Field |
Person(s) Named After |
Abel's theorem |
Calculus |
Niels Henrik Abel |
Ampère's law |
Physics |
André-Marie Ampère |
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 |
Boltzmann equation |
Thermodynamics |
Ludwig Boltzmann |
Boyle's law |
Thermodynamics |
Robert Boyle |
Buys-Ballot's law |
Meteorology |
C.H.D. Buys Ballot |
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 |
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 |
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' law |
Ergonomics |
Paul Fitts |
Fourier's law |
Thermodynamics |
Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier |
Gauss' law |
Physics |
Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss |
Graham's law |
Thermodynamics |
Thomas Graham |
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 |
Hubble's law |
Cosmology |
Edwin Hubble |
Huygens-Fresnel principle |
Optics |
Christiaan Huygens and Augustin-Jean Fresnel |
Joule's law |
Physics |
James Joule |
Kepler's laws of planetary motion |
Astrophysics |
Johannes Kepler |
Kirchhoff's laws |
Electronics, Thermodynamics |
Gustav Kirchhoff |
Kopp's Law |
Thermodynamics |
Hermann Franz Moritz Kopp |
Le Chatelier's principle |
Chemistry |
Henri Louis le Chatelier |
Lenz's law |
Physics |
Heinrich Lenz |
Maxwell's Equations
Maxwell Relations |
Electrodynamics
Thermodynamics |
James Clerk Maxwell |
Minkowski's theorem |
Number theory |
Hermann Minkowski |
Nernst equation |
Electrochemistry |
Walther Nernst |
Newton's law of cooling
Newton's law of gravitation
Newton's laws of motion |
Thermodynamics
Astrophysics
Mechanics |
Isaac Newton |
Noether's theorem |
Theoretical physics |
Emmy Noether |
Occam's Razor |
Philosophy of science |
William of Ockham |
Ohm's law |
Electronics |
Georg Ohm |
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 |
Planck's law of black body radiation |
Electromagnetism |
Max Planck |
Ptolemy's theorem |
Geometry |
Ptolemy |
Pythagorean theorem |
Geometry |
Pythagoras |
Raoult's law |
Physical chemistry |
Francois Marie Raoult |
Rolle's theorem |
Differential calculus |
Michel Rolle |
Schrödinger Equation |
Physics |
Erwin Schrödinger |
Snell's law |
Optics |
Willebrord van Roijen Snell |
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 |
Titius-Bode law |
Astrophysics |
Johann Daniel Titius and Johann Elert Bode |
Torricelli's law |
Physics |
Evangelista Torricelli |
Van der Waals equation |
Chemistry |
Johannes Diderik van der Waals |
Wien's law |
Physics |
Wilhelm Wien |
Zipf's law |
Linguistics |
George Kingsley Zipf |