Scientific laws named after people

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

Law	Person(s) Named After
Amdahl's law	Gene Amdahl
Ampère's law	André-Marie Ampère
Archie's law	Gus Archie
Avogadro's law	Amedeo Avogadro
Beer-Lambert law	August Beer, Johann Heinrich Lambert
Bernoulli's principle Bernoulli's equation	Daniel Bernoulli
Biot-Savart law	Jean Baptiste Biot and Felix Savart
Boyle's law	Robert Boyle
Bradford's law	Samuel C. Bradford
Buys-Ballot's law	C.H.D. Buys Ballot
Church-Turing thesis	Alonzo Church and Alan Turing
Coulomb's law	Charles Augustin de Coulomb
Law of Charles and Gay-Lussac (frequently called Charles's Law)	Jacques Charles and Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac
Dalton's law of partial pressure	John Dalton
De Morgan's law	Augustus De Morgan
Einstein's General Theory of Relativity	Albert Einstein
Faraday's law of induction Faraday's law of electrolysis	Michael Faraday
Fick's law of diffusion	Adolf Fick
Fitts' law	Paul Fitts
Fourier's law	Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier
Gauss' law	Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss
Gibbs free energy	Willard Gibbs
Gödel's incompleteness theorem	Kurt Gödel
Graham's law	Thomas Graham
Henry's law	William Henry
Hess's law	Germain Henri Hess
Hooke's law	Robert Hooke
Hubble's law	Edwin Hubble
Joule's law	James Joule
Kepler's laws of planetary motion	Johannes Kepler
Kirchhoff's laws	Gustav Kirchhoff
Le Chatelier's principle	Henri Louis le Chatelier
Metcalfe's law	Robert Metcalfe
Minkowski's theorem	Hermann Minkowski
Moore's law	Gordon Moore
Nash embedding theorem	John Forbes Nash
Newton's law of cooling Newton's law of gravitation Newton's laws of motion	Isaac Newton
Noether's theorem	Emmy Noether
Occam's Razor	William of Ockham
Ohm's law	Georg Ohm
Pascal's theorem	Blaise Pascal
Pareto distribution Pareto efficiency Pareto index Pareto principle	Vilfredo Pareto
Pauli exclusion principle	Wolfgang Pauli
Peano axioms	Giuseppe Peano
Planck's law of black body radiation	Max Planck
Poiseuille's law	Jean Louis Marie Poiseuille
Raoult's law	Francois Marie Raoult
Riemann zeta function Riemann hypothesis Riemann integral Riemann lemma Riemannian manifold Riemann sphere Riemann theta function	Bernhard Riemann
Snell's law	Willebrord van Roijen Snell
Stefan-Boltzmann law	Jožef Stefan and Ludwig Boltzmann
Stokes' law	George Gabriel Stokes
Titius-Bode law	Johann Daniel Titius and Johann Elert Bode
Wien's law	Wilhelm Wien
Zipf's law	George Kingsley Zipf

Scientific laws named after people

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