Eponymous science
The book of science
Tom Sharp
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Eponymous milestones
The last name of the scientist who made the discovery or did the initial work frequently identifies the science, law, effect, technique, object, or device.
Index of eponymous milestones
Alexanderson alternator
Alfvén wave
Amontons’ Laws of Friction
Ampère’s circuital law
Archimedes’s screw
Arago spot
Arrhenius equation
Avogadro constant
Bacon’s cipher
Bakelite
Barkhausen effect
Barsanti-Matteucci engine
Batesian mimicry
Bayes’ theorem
BCS theory
Bernoulli’s principle
Birkeland–Eyde process
Birkeland current
Bohrium
Bohr magneton
Boolean algebra
Bose-Einstein condensate
Boveri-Sutton chromosome theory
Boyle’s law
Branly coherer
Brownian motion
Bunsen burner
Cartesian coordinates
Caesar cipher
Casimir effect
Celsius scale
Cherenkov radiation
Coandă effect
Compton scattering
Compton wavelength
Conway’s Game of Life
Cooper pair
Copernicium
Coriolis effect
Cotton effect
Cotton-Mouton effect
Coulomb’s law
Crookes radiometer
Crookes tube
Curie’s law, Curie temperature
Curium
D’Alembert’s paradox
Delisle scale
De Rivaz engine
Diesel engine
Diophantine equation
Dirac equation, Dirac sea
Doppler effect
Douady rabbit
The Drebbel
Edison effect
Einsteinium
Einstein refrigerator
Ekman transport
Euler characteristic
Euler’s number
Faraday cage
Faraday cup
Faraday disc
Faraday effect
Faraday efficiency
Faraday’s law of induction
Faraday wave
Fahrenheit scale
Fermat’s principle
Fermionic condensate
Fermium
Feynman diagram
Fibonacci sequence
Fischer projection
Fleming valve
Foucault’s pendulum
Fullerene
Galvanometer
Geiger counter
Geissler tube
Gibbs free energy
Goldschmidt classification
Gram staining
Graetz bridge
Halley’s comet
Hausdorff dimension
Hawking radiation
Hayflick limit
Heaviside condition
Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle
Hill cipher
Hooke’s law
Huygens’ engine
Huygens–Fresnel principle
Joule–Thomson effect
Julian calendar
Kater’s pendulum
Keeling curve
Kelvin scale
Kelvin wave
Kerr effect
Koch snowflake
Koch’s postulates
Langmuir circulation
Lawrencium
Leibniz wheel
Leidenfrost effect
Lenoir gas engine
Lenz’s law
Lorentz force, Lorentz transformations
Majorana fermion
Magnus effect
Mandelbrot set
Marangoni effect
Maxwell’s equations
Meissner effect
Meitnerium
Mendelian inheritance
Mercator projection
Mendelevium
Mersenne’s laws of vibrating strings
Michelson-Morley experiment
Mohs scale
Mössbauer effect
Mpemba effect
Müllerian mimicry
Nansen bottle
Napier’s bones
Neo-Darwinism
von Neumann machine
Newton scale
Nicol prism
Nobelium
Noether’s theorem
Nonius
Oganesson
Ohm’s law
Oort cloud
Otto cycle
Parson magneton
Pascal’s calculator
Paschen’s law
Pauli exclusion principle
Peltier effect
Petri net
Planck constant
Playfair cipher
Polybius square
Prout’s hypothesis
Pupin coil
Pythagorean theorem
Réaumur scale
Reynolds number
Roentgenium
Rollin film
Rømer scale
Roots blower
Rossby wave
Rutherfordium
Sagnac effect
Schottky effect
Schrödinger equation
Seaborgium
Schwartzchild radius
Scoville scale
Seebeck effect
Sierpinski carpet
Skyrmion (Quasiparticles)
Snell’s law
Stark-Lo Surdo effect
Stefan-Boltzmann law
Stirling engine
Stokes drift
Tesla turbine
Thales’ theorem
Townsend discharge
Turing pattern
Turing test
Voigt effect
Van Allen belts
Van der Waals force
Vernier scale
Vigenère cipher
Wallace line
Wedgwood scale
Weiss magneton
Wheatstone bridge
Zeeman effect