| 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 |