Scientific phenomena named after people
This is a list of scientific phenomena named after people.
- For other lists of eponyms (names derived from people) see eponym.
- For a list of eponyms sorted by name see List of eponyms.
- Brownian motion – Robert Brown
- Casimir effect – Hendrik Casimir
- Cherenkov effect – Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov
- Coanda effect – Henri Coanda
- Compton effect – Arthur Compton
- Coriolis effect – Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis
- Curie point – Pierre Curie
- Doppler effect – Christian Doppler
- Edison effect – Thomas Edison
- Fermi energy, Fermi paradox – Enrico Fermi
- Gibbs phenomenon – Josiah Willard Gibbs
- Hall effect – Edwin Hall
- Josephson effect – Brian David Josephson
- Kennelly-Heaviside layer – Arthur Edwin Kennelly and Oliver Heaviside
- Kerr effect – John Kerr (physicist)
- Kuiper Belt – Gerard Kuiper
- Landau damping – Lev Davidovich Landau
- Landau pole – Lev Davidovich Landau
- Lennard-Jones potential – John Lennard-Jones
- London force – Fritz London
- Lorentz force – Hendrik Lorentz
- Meissner effect (or Meissner-Ochsenfeld effect) – Walter Meissner (and Robert Ochsenfeld)
- Mossbauer effect – Rudolf Mössbauer
- Newton's rings – Isaac Newton
- Oort Cloud – Jan Oort
- Pauli exclusion principle – Wolfgang Pauli
- Peltier effect – Jean Charles Athanase Peltier
- Pockels effect – Friedrich Carl Alwin Pockels
- Raman effect – C. V. Raman
- Rayleigh scattering – Lord Rayleigh
- Runge's phenomenon – Carle David Tolmé Runge
- St. Elmo's fire – Saint Elmo
- Seebeck effect – Thomas Seebeck
- Stark effect – Johannes Stark
- Sunyaev-Zeldovic effect – Rashid Sunyaev and Yakov B. Zeldovic
- Tesla effect – Nikola Tesla
- Van Allen radiation belt – James Van Allen
- Van der Waals force – Johannes Diderik van der Waals
- Zeeman effect – Pieter Zeeman