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This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.This is a list of countries and dependent territories named after people.Contents 1 Sovereign countries named after people 1.1 Countries named after legendary figures 1.2 Former countries named after people 2 Dependent territories named after people 3 See alsoSovereign countries named after peopleCountrySource of name

BoliviaSimn Bolvar

ChinaEmperor Qin (rendered as "Chin")

ColombiaChristopher Columbus

Dominican RepublicSaint Dominic

El SalvadorJesus (literally, The Savior)

GeorgiaSaint George

IsraelJacob, who was also called Israel in the Bible

KiribatiThomas Gilbert ("Kiribati" is the Gilbertese rendition of "Gilberts")

Jordan, Hashemite Kingdom ofHashemite dynasty

LiechtensteinPrincely Family of Liechtenstein

Marshall IslandsJohn Marshall

MauritiusMaurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange

MozambiqueMussa Mbiki

NicaraguaNicarao

PhilippinesKing Philip II of Spain

Rhodesia (former name of Zimbabwe)Cecil Rhodes

Saint Kitts and NevisSaint Christopher

Saint LuciaSaint Lucy

Saint Vincent and the GrenadinesSaint Vincent of Saragossa

San MarinoSaint Marinus

So Tom and PrncipeSaint Thomas and Prince of Portugal to whom duties on the island's sugar crop were paid

Saudi ArabiaMuhammad bin Saud

SeychellesJean Moreau de Schelles

Solomon IslandsKing Solomon of Israel and Judah

SwazilandKing Mswati II

United States of AmericaAmerigo Vespucci (see Naming of America)

Venezuela (The Bolivarian Republic of)Simn Bolvar

Countries named after legendary figuresCountrySource of name

BelarusRus (legendary figure)

CambodiaSage Kambu Swayambhuva

Czech Republicech (legendary figure)

Djibouti"Djibouti" means "Land of Tehuti" or "Land of Thoth", after the Egyptian Moon God

Hellenic Republic (Greece)Hellen

Bhrat (India)Bharata

ire (Ireland)ire (riu), a Celtic fertility goddess

Laospossibly after Lava

Lechia (historical and/or alternative name of Poland)Lech (legendary figure)

Romaniafrom "Rome" / "Roman", which possibly comes from Romulus

RussiaRus (legendary figure)

Tunisiapossibly from the Phoenician goddess Tanith

Former countries named after peopleCountrySource of name

Principality of Antioch, now part of TurkeyAntiochus, father of Seleucus I Nicator

Lotharingia (Lorraine), now part of Belgium, France, Germany, Luxembourg, and the NetherlandsLothair I

Dependent territories named after peopleTerritorySource of name

Baker IslandMichael Baker

BermudaJuan de Bermdez

Bouvet IslandJean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier

Clipperton IslandJohn Clipperton

Cocos (Keeling) IslandsCaptain William Keeling

Cook IslandsCaptain James Cook

Falkland IslandsAnthony Cary, 5th Viscount Falkland

Jan MayenJan Jacobszoon May van Schellinkhout

Jarvis IslandEdward, Thomas, and William Jarvis

Johnston AtollCaptain Charles J. Johnston

Juan de NovaJoo da Nova

Kingman ReefCaptain W.E. Kingman

Isle of ManManannn mac Lir

MartiniqueMartin of Tours

Norfolk IslandsWife of Edward Howard, 9th Duke of Norfolk

Northern Mariana IslandsMariana of Austria

Pitcairn IslandsMajor Pitcairn of the Marines

Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da CunhaSaint Helena of Constantinople, Tristo da Cunha

Saint Pierre and MiquelonSaint Peter and Saint Michael

Sint MaartenMartin of Tours

South Georgia and the South Sandwich IslandsGeorge III of the UK, and the John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich

Tromelin IslandChevalier de Tromelin

Virgin IslandsSaint Ursula and her 11,000 virgins

Wake IslandWilliam Wake

Wallis and FutunaSamuel Wallis

List of chemical element name etymologiesFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia(Redirected from Chemical elements named after people)This is the list of etymologies for all chemical element names.Contents 1 Table 2 See also 3 References 4 Further readingTableElementLanguage of OriginOriginal WordMeaningSymbol OriginDescription

89ActiniumAcGreek (aktis)beamGreek aktinos, (aktis; aktinos), which means "beam (ray)".

13AluminiumAlLatinalumenalum (literally: bitter salt)[1]Latin alumenLatin alumen, which means "alum" (literally "bitter salt").

95AmericiumAmAmericatoponym: the AmericasNamed for the Americas, because it was discovered in the United States (by analogy with Europium) (the name of the continent America is derived from the name of the Italian navigator Amerigo Vespucci).

51AntimonySbGreek? via Medieval Latin and Middle English[2] + (anti monos);antimonium/antimonie[3]variousPossibly from Greek + (anti monos), approximately meaning "opposed to solitude", as believed never to exist in pure form, or + (anti monachos) for "monk-killer" (in French folk etymology, anti-moine "monk's bane"), because many early alchemists were monks, and antimony is poisonous. This may also be derived from the Pharaonic (ancient Egyptian), Antos Ammon (expression), which could be translated as "bloom of the god Ammo".The symbol Sb is from Latin name Stibium, which is derived from Greek stbi, a variant of stimmi (genitive: or ), probably a loan word from Arabic or Egyptian

sdm. Littr suggests that the first form is derived from *stimmida, a hypothetical alternative accusative of stimmi (the canonical accusative of the noun is the same as the nominative: stimmi). The Arabic word for the substance, as "mark" or "the cosmetic", can appear as ithmid, athmoud, othmod or uthmod.[4]

18ArgonArGreek (argon)inactivedescriptive: argonGreek argon means "inactive" (literally "slow").

33ArsenicAsSyriac/Persian via Greek, Latin, Old French, and Middle English (arsenikon)orpimentGreek arsenikonFrom Greek (arsenikon), which is adapted from the Syriac (al) zarniqa[5] and Persian, (zarnik), "yellow orpiment". (arsenikon) is paretymologically related to the Greek word (arsenikos), which means "masculine" or "potent." These words were adapted as the Latin arsenicum and Old French arsenic, which is the source for the English arsenic.[5]

85AstatineAtGreek (astatos)unstableGreek astatos (astatos) means "unstable".[6]

56BariumBaGreek via Modern Latin (barys)heavyGreek barys (barys) means "heavy". The oxide was initially called "barote", then "baryta", which was modified to "barium" to describe the metal. Sir Humphry Davy gave the element this name because it was originally found in baryte, which shares the same source.[7]

97BerkeliumBkAnglo-Saxon via EnglishUniversity of California, Berkeleytoponym: Berkeley, CaliforniaNamed for the University of California, Berkeley, where it was discovered. Berkeley, California, was named in honor of George Berkeley. "Berkeley" is derived from Old English beorce lah, which meaning birch lea.[8]

4BerylliumBeSanskrit, Pali, and Prakrit via Greek, Latin, Old French, and Middle English (beryllos)a blue-green spar, but possibly related to the name of Belurdescriptive (colour): beryl beryllos, denoting beryl, which contains beryllium.[9] The word is derived (via Latin: Beryllus and French: Bryl) from the Greek , brullos, a blue-green spar, from Prakrit veruliya (), from Pli veuriya (); veiru () or, viar (), "to become pale," in reference to the pale semiprecious gemstone beryl.[10] The word is ultimately derived from the Sanskrit word vaidurya- which might be related to the name of the city of Belur.[11]

83BismuthBiModern Latin from Germanbisemutumwhite massdescriptive (colour): bisemutumbisemutum is derived from German Wismuth, perhaps from weie Masse, and means "white mass", due to its appearance.

107BohriumBhBohr, Nielseponym: Niels BohrNamed in honor of Niels Bohr, who made fundamental the understanding of atomic structure and quantum mechanics.[12]

5BoronBPersian via Arabic, Medieval Latin, Anglo-Norman, Middle French, and Middle English (buraq)Latin borax from Arabic (buraq) is derived from the Persian, (burah), which refers to borax. These terms were adapted as Medieval Latin baurach, Anglo-Norman boreis, and Middle English boras, which became the source of the English boron.

35BromineBrGreek via French (brmos)[13]dirt or stench (of he-goats)[14]Greek bromos (brmos) means "stench (lit. clangor)", due to its characteristic smell.

48CadmiumCdGreek/Latin (kadmeia)calamine or Cadmean earthGreek kadmiaFrom Latin cadmia, which is derived from Greek (kadmeia) and means "calamine", a Cadmium-bearing mixture of minerals. Cadmium is named after Cadmus (in Greek: Kadmos), a character in Greek mythology and calamine is derived from Le Calamine, the French name of the Belgian town of Kelmis.

55CaesiumCsLatincaesiusblue-gray[15] or sky bluedescriptive (colour): Latin caesiusFrom Latin caesius, which means "sky blue". Its identification was based upon the bright-blue lines in its spectrum, and it was the first element discovered by spectrum analysis.

20CalciumCaGreek/Latin/calx means "pebble", and calx means limestone[16]Latin calxFrom Latin calx, which means "lime". Calcium was known as early as the first century when the Ancient Romans prepared lime as calcium oxide.

98CaliforniumCfEnglishCaliforniatoponym: State and University of CaliforniaNamed for California, the U.S. state of California and for the University of California, Berkeley. (The origin of the state's name is disputed.)

6CarbonCLatin via FrenchcharbonecharcoalLatin carboFrom the French, charbone, which in turn came from Latin carb, which means "charcoal" and is related to carbn-, which means "a coal." (In the German and the Dutch, Kohlenstoff and Koolstof, respectively, both literally mean "coal-stuff") These words were derived from the PIE base *ker- meaning heat, fire, or to burn.[17]

58CeriumCeLatinCeresgrain, breadastrological; mythological: CeresNamed after the asteroid Ceres, discovered two years earlier. (The asteroid, now classified as a dwarf planet, was named after Ceres, the goddess of fertility in mythology)[18] Ceres is derived from PIE *ker-es- from base *ker- meaning to grow.[19][20]

17ChlorineClGreek (chlors)pale green[21]descriptive (colour): Greek chlorosFrom Greek (chlors), which means "yellowish green" or "greenish yellow", because of the color of the gas.

24ChromiumCrGreek via French (chrma)colordescriptive (colour): Greek chromaFrom Greek (chrma), "color", because of the multicolored compounds. This word was adapted as the French chrome, and adding the suffix -ium created the English chromium.[22]

27CobaltCoGermanKoboldevil spiritGerman koboldFrom German Kobold, which means "evil spirit". The metal was named by miners, because it was poisonous and troublesome (polluted and degraded other mined elements, such as nickel). Other sources cite the origin in the silver miners' belief that cobalt had been placed by "Kobolds", who had stolen the silver. Some also think that the name may have been derived from Greek , kobalos, which means "mine" and which may have common roots with kobold, goblin, and cobalt.

112CoperniciumCnPolish via LatinCopernicus, NicolausPolish surname, literally: "copper nickel"eponym: Nicolaus CopernicusNamed in honor of Nicolaus Copernicus.

29CopperCuGreek? via Latin, West Germanic, Old English, and Middle English[23] (Kyprios)?who/which is from Cyprustoponym: Latin CuprumPossibly derived from Greek (Kyprios) (which comes from (Kypros), the Greek name of Cyprus) via Latin cuprum, West Germanic *kupar, Old English coper/copor, and Middle English coper. In Latin term,during the Roman empire, was aes cyprium; "aes" was the generic term for copper alloys such as bronze). Cyprium means "Cyprus" or "which is from Cyprus", where so much of it was mined; it was simplified to cuprum and then eventually Anglicized as copper (Old English coper/copor).

96CuriumCmCurie, Marie and Pierreeponym: Pierre and Marie Curie and the -um endingNamed in honor of Marie and Pierre Curie, who discovered Radium and researched radioactivity.

110DarmstadtiumDsGermanDarmstadtproper name, literally: "intestine city"toponymNamed for Darmstadt, where it was discovered (GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research, located in Wixhausen, a small suburb north of Darmstadt).It has also been called Eka-platinum.[24][25]

105DubniumDbRussian (Dubna)toponymNamed for Dubna (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, U.S.S.R.) where it was discovered . Researchers of the University of California, Berkeley, proposed Hahnium (Ha), which is named in honor of Otto Hahn, for his pioneering work in radioactivity and radiochemistry, but the proposal was rejected.[12]

66DysprosiumDyGreek (dysprositos)hard to get atdescriptiveDerived from Greek (dysprositos), which means "hard to get at".

99EinsteiniumEsGermanEinstein, AlbertGerman-Jewish surname, which means "one stone"eponymNamed in honor of Albert Einstein, for his work on theoretical physics, which included the photoelectric effect.

68ErbiumErSwedishYtterbyproper name, literally: "outer village"toponymNamed after the village of Ytterby in Sweden, where large concentrations of yttria and erbium are located. Erbia and terbia were confused at this time. After 1860, what had been known as terbia was renamed erbia, and, after 1877, what had been known as erbia was renamed terbia.

63EuropiumEuAncient Greek (Europe)broad-faced or well-wateredtoponym;mythologicalNamed for Europe, where it was discovered. Europe was named after the fictional Phoenician princess Europa.

100FermiumFmItalianFermi, EnricoItalian surname, from ferm- "fastener" and -i[26]eponymNamed in honor of Enrico Fermi, who developed the first nuclear reactor, quantum theory, nuclear and particle physics, and statistical mechanics.

114FleroviumFlRussianFlerov, GeorgyRussian surnameeponymNamed in honor of Georgy Flyorov, who was at the forefront of Soviet nuclear physics and founder of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna, Russia, where the element was discovered.

9FluorineFLatinfluora flowingFrom the Fluorspar, one of its compounds.

87FranciumFrFrenchFranceproper name (Land of the Franks)toponymNamed for France, where it was discovered (Curie Institute (Paris)).

64GadoliniumGdGadolin, JohaneponymNamed in honor of Johan Gadolin, who was one of the founders of Nordic chemistry research, discovered Yttrium, and pioneered laboratory exercise teaching. (Gadolinite, the mineral, is also named for him.)

31GalliumGaLatinGalliaGaul (Ancient France)toponymFrom Latin Gallia, which means Gaul (Ancient France), and also gallus, which means "rooster". The element was obtained as free metal by Lecoq de Boisbaudran, who named Gallium after France, his native land, and also, punningly, after himself, as Lecoq, which means "the rooster", or in Latin, gallus. Gallium was called Eka-aluminium by Mendeleev who predicted its existence.[25]

32GermaniumGeLatinGermaniaGermanytoponymFrom Latin Germania, which means "Germany". Germanium has also been called Eka-silicon by Mendeleev.[25]

79GoldAuAnglo-Saxon via Middle Englishgolddescriptive (colour): Latin aurumFrom the Anglo-Saxon, "gold", from PIE *ghel- meaning "yellow/ bright."Au is from Latin Aurum, which means "shining dawn".[27]

72HafniumHfLatinHafniaCopenhagentoponymFrom Latin Hafnia, which means "Copenhagen" of Denmark.

108HassiumHsLatinHassiaHessentoponymDerived from Latin Hassia, which means Hessen, the German state where it was discovered (Institute for Heavy Ion Research, Darmstadt).[12] It has also been called Eka-osmium.[25]

2HeliumHeGreek (hlios)sunmythologicalNamed after the Greek (helios), which means "the sun" or the mythological sun-god.[18] It was first identified by its characteristic emission lines in the sun's spectrum.

67HolmiumHoLatinHolmiaStockholmtoponymDerived from Latin Holmia, which means Stockholm.

1HydrogenHGreek via Latin and French (root: -) + - (-genes)water + begetterdescriptiveFrom French hydrogne[28] and Latin hydro- and -genes, derived from the Greek (hydor geinomai), meaning " beget water".

49IndiumInGreek via Latin and Englishindigodescriptive (colour)Named after indigo, because of indigo spectrum line. The English word indigo is from Spanish indico and Dutch indigo (from Portuguese endego), from Latin indicum "indigo," from Greek , indikon "blue dye from India".

53IodineIGreek via French (iodes)violetdescriptive (colour)Named after the Greek (iodes), which means "violet", because of the color of the gas. This word was adapted as the French iode, which is the source of the English iodine.[29]

77IridiumIrGreek via Latin (genitive: )of rainbowsdescriptive (colour)Named after the Latin noun iris, which means "rainbow, iris plant, iris of the eye", because many of salts are strongly colored; "Iris" was originally the name of the goddess of rainbows and a messenger in Greek mythology.[18]

26IronFeAnglo-Saxon via Middle Englishsern(earlier: ren/sen)/yren/yronholy metal or strong metal[30]descriptive: Anglo-SaxonFrom the Anglo-Saxon sern which is derived from Proto-Germanic isarnan meaning "holy metal" or "strong metal" which in its turn may derive from the Etruscan, aisar, meaning "the god(s)", because the earliest iron to be worked (by the Sumerians and Egyptians, around 4000 BC) was obtained from meteorites, and meteorites fall from the sky.[31]The symbol Fe is from Latin ferrum, meaning "iron".

36KryptonKrGreek (kryptos)hiddendescriptiveFrom Greek (kryptos), which means "hidden one", because of its colorless, odorless, tasteless, gaseous properties (like other noble gases).

57LanthanumLaGreek (lanthanein)to lie hiddenFrom Greek lanthanein, "to lie (hidden)".

103LawrenciumLrLawrence, Ernest OeponymNamed in honor of "Ernest O. Lawrence", who was involved in the development of the cyclotron. The symbol is Lr since 1963; formerly Lw was used. Unniltrium was used as a temporary systematic element name.[12]

82LeadPbAnglo-SaxonleadThe symbol Pb is from Latin name, Plumbum, hence the English, "plumbing".[18][32]

3LithiumLiGreek (lithos)stoneFrom Greek (lithos) "stone", because it was discovered from a mineral while other common alkali metals (sodium and potassium) were discovered from plant tissue.

116LivermoriumLvEnglishAmerican surnametoponymNamed in honor of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, which collaborated in the discovery and is in Livermore, California, in turn named after the rancher Robert Livermore.

71LutetiumLuLatinLutetiaParistoponymNamed after the Latin, Lutetia (Gaulish for "place of mud"), the city of Paris.[12]

12MagnesiumMgGreek (Magnesia)toponymFrom the Ancient Greek (Magnesia) (district in Thessaly), where discovered.

25ManganeseMnGreek via Latin, Italian, and French(Magnesia;Medieval Latin: magnesia)MagnesiadescriptiveFrom Latin Magnesia ultimately from Greek; Magnesia evolved into Manganese in Italian and into Manganse in French.

109MeitneriumMtMeitner, LiseeponymNamed in honor of Lise Meitner, who shared discovery of nuclear fission.[12] It has also been called 'Eka-iridium.[25]

101MendeleviumMdMendeleyev, DmitrieponymNamed in honor of Dmitri Mendeleyev, who invented periodic table.[33] It has also been called 'Eka-thulium.[25]

80MercuryHgLatinMercuriusMercurymythologicalNamed after Mercury, the god of speed and messenger of the Gods, as was the "planet Mercury" named after the god.The symbol Hg is from Greek name, and (hydor and argyros), which became Latin, Hydrargyrum; both mean "water-silver", because it is a liquid like water (at room temperature), and has silvery metallic sheen.[18][34]

42MolybdenumMoGreek (molybdos)lead-likedescriptiveFrom Greek (molybdos), "lead".

60NeodymiumNdGreek (neos didymos)new twindescriptiveDerived from Greek (neos didymos), which means "new twin", because didymium separated into praseodymium and neodymium, when they emitted salts of different colors.[35]

10NeonNeGreek (neos)newFrom Greek "" (neos), which means "new".

93NeptuniumNpLatinNeptunusNeptunemythologicalNamed for "Neptune", the planet. (The planet was named after "Neptune", the god of oceans in mythology.)[18]

28NickelNiSwedish via German[36]Kopparnickel/Kupfernickelcopper-coloured oredescriptiveFrom the Swedish, Kopparnickel, meaning "copper-colored ore"; this referred to the ore niccolite from which it was obtained.[37]

41NiobiumNbGreek (Niobe)snowymythologicalNamed after Niobe, daughter of Tantalus in Classical mythology.[12][18]The alternate name columbium comes from Columbia, personification of America.

7NitrogenNGreek via Latin and French (Latin: nitrum) - (-genes)native-soda begetterdescriptiveFrom French "nitrogne",[38] derived from Greek (nitron geinomai), meaning "I form/beget native-soda (niter)".[39]Also used was azoth, from Andalusian Arabic al-zuq, from the Classical Arabic name of the element, and that from Pahlavi.

102NobeliumNoNobel, AlfredeponymNamed in honor of Alfred Nobel, who invented dynamite and instituted the Nobel Prizes foundation.

76OsmiumOsGreek via Modern Latin (osme)a smelldescriptiveFrom Greek (osme), means "a smell".

8OxygenOGreek via French (oxy geinomai)/oxygneto bring forth acidFrom Greek (oxy geinomai), which means " bring forth acid", as it was believed to be an essential component of acids. This phrase was corrupted into French oxygne, which became the source of the English oxygen.[40]

46PalladiumPdGreek via Latin (genitive: ) (Pallas)little maiden[41]astrological/ mythologicalNamed after Pallas, the asteroid discovered two years earlier. (The asteroid was named after Pallas Athena, goddess of wisdom and victory.)[18] The word Palladium is derived from Greek and is the neutral version of meaning "of Pallas."[42]

15PhosphorusPGreek via Latin[43] + - (phos + -phoros)light-bearerdescriptiveFrom Greek + - (phos + -phoros), which means "light bearer", because "white phosphorus" emits a faint glow upon exposure to oxygenPhosphorus was the ancient name for Venus, or Hesperus, the (Morning Star).[18]

78PlatinumPtSpanish via Modern Latinplatina (del Pinto)little silver (of the Pinto River)[44]descriptiveFrom the Spanish, platina, which means "little silver", because it was first encountered in a silver mine. Platina can also mean "stage (of a microscope)", and the modern Spanish is Platino. Platina is a diminutive of Plata (silver) and is a loan word from French plate or Provenal plata (sheet of metal) and is the origin of the English "plate."[45]

94PlutoniumPuGreek via Latin (Ploutn) via Plutogod of wealth[46]astrological;mythologicalNamed after Pluto, the dwarf planet, because it was discovered directly after Neptunium and is higher than Uranium on periodic table, so by analogy with the ordering of the planets. (The planet Pluto was named after "Pluto", a Greek god of the dead)[18] (Ploutn) is related to the Greek word (ploutos) meaning "wealth."

84PoloniumPoLatinPoloniaPolandtoponymNamed after Poland, homeland of discoverer Marie Curie. Was also called Radium F.

19PotassiumKModern Latin via Dutch and English[47]potassa; potasch via potash[48]pot-ashFrom the English "potash", which means "pot-ash" (Potassium compound prepared from an alkali extracted in a pot from the ash of burnt wood or tree leaves).Potash is a literal translation of the German potaschen, which means "pot ashes."[47] The symbol K is from Latin name, Kalium, from Arabic (al qaly), which means "calcined ashes".

59PraseodymiumPrGreek (prasios didymos)green twindescriptiveFrom Greek (prasios didymos), meaning "green twin", because didymium separated into Praseodymium and neodymium, with salts of different colors.

61PromethiumPmGreek (Prometheus)forethought[49]mythologicalNamed after Prometheus, who stole the fire of heaven and gave it to mankind (in Classical mythology).[18]

91ProtactiniumPaGreek + first beam elementdescriptive?Derived from former name Protoactinium, from the Greek prefix proto- "first" + Neolatin actinium from Greek (gen.: ) "ray" + Latin -ium.[50]

88RadiumRaLatin via FrenchradiusraydescriptiveFrom Latin radius meaning "ray", because of its radioactivity.

86RadonRnLatin via German and English[51]RadiumContraction of Radium emanation, since the element appears in the radioactive decay of radium.An alternative, rejected name was Niton (Nt), from Latin nitens "shining".

75RheniumReLatinRhenusRhinetoponymFrom Latin Rhenus, the river Rhine.

45RhodiumRhGreek (rhodon)rosedescriptive (colour)From Greek (rhodon), which means "rose".

111RoentgeniumRgRntgen,Wilhelm ConradeponymNamed in honour of Wilhelm Conrad Rntgen, who produced and detected x-rays. It has also been called Eka-gold.[25]

37RubidiumRbLatinrubidusdeepest reddescriptive (colour)From Latin rubidus, which means "deepest red", because of color in spectroscope.

44RutheniumRuLatinRutheniaRussiatoponymFrom Latin Ruthenia, which means "Russia".

104RutherfordiumRfRutherford, ErnesteponymNamed in honor of Baron Ernest Rutherford, who pioneered the Bohr model of the atom. Rutherfordium has also been called Kurchatovium (Ku), named in honor of Igor Vasilevich Kurchatov, who shared discovered fundamental understanding of the Uranium chain reaction and the nuclear reactor.[12]

62SamariumSmSamarsky-Bykhovets, VasilieponymNamed after Samarskite, the mineral. ("Samarskite" was named after "Colonel Vasili Samarsky-Bykhovets", a Russian mine official.)

21ScandiumScLatinScandiaScandinaviatoponymNamed from Latin Scandia, which means "Scandinavia"; formerly Eka-boron.[25]

106SeaborgiumSgSwedish via EnglishSeaborg, Glenn TeodorSwedish surname, literally: "Lake Mountain"eponymNamed in honor of Glenn T. Seaborg, who discovered the chemistry of the transuranium elements, shared discovered and isolated 10 elements, developed and proposed the actinide series. Other names: Eka-tungsten[25] and temporarily by IUPAC Unnilhexium (Unh).[12]

34SeleniumSeGreek (selene)moonastrological/ mythologicalFrom Greek (selene), which means "Moon", and also moon-goddess Selene.[18]

14SiliconSiLatinsilex, -icisflintdescriptiveFrom Latin "silex" or "silicis", which means "flint", a kind of stone.

47SilverAgAkkadian via Anglo-Saxon and Middle English/; siolfor/seolforto refine, smeltLatin argentumFrom the Anglo-Saxon, seolfor which was derived from Proto-Germanic *silubra-; compare Old High German silabar; and has cognates in Balto-Slavic languages: Old Church Slavonic: srebro, Lithuanian: sidabras, Old Prussian sirablan. Possibly borrowed from Akkadian sarpu "refined silver" and related to sarapu "to refine, smelt".[52] Alternatively, possibly from one of the Pre-Indo-European languages, compare Basque: zilar.The symbol Ag is from Latin name Argentum, which is derived from PIE *arg-ent-.

11SodiumNaEnglishsodaFrom the English, "soda", used in names for Sodium compounds such as caustic soda, soda ash, and baking soda.The symbol Na is from Modern Latin noun natrium, derived from Greek (ntron), "natural soda, a kind of salt" + Latin -ium.[53] Its original source being either the Arabic word natrun or the Egyptian word

netjeri.

38StrontiumSrScottish Gaelic via EnglishSrn an t-Sthein; Strontianproper name (literally: "nose [i.e., 'point'] of the fairy hill)"toponymNamed after Strontianite, the mineral. ("Strontianite" was named after "the town of Strontian", the source of the mineral in Scotland.)

16SulfurSSanskrit[54][55][56] and Arabic via Late Latin, Old French,[57] and Middle English[58] (sufra)yellowdescriptive (colour)Almost certainly from Arabic (sufra), "yellow", the bright color of the naturally occurring form. The word passed into Sanskrit, (sulvere or sulvari), the Latin, sulpur, the Old French soufre,[59] the English, "sulphur" or "sulfur", and also was commonly referred as "brimstone" in English translations of the Bible.

73TantalumTaGreek (Tantalus)Tantalus; possibly "the bearer" or the sufferer"[60]mythologicalNamed after the Greek ("Tantalus"), who was punished after death by being condemned to stand knee-deep in water, if he bent to drink the water, it drained below the level he could reach (on Greek mythology). This was considered similar to tantalum's general non-reactivity because of its inertness (it sits among reagents and is unaffected by them).[18]

43TechnetiumTcGreek (technetos)artificialdescriptiveFrom Greek (technetos), which means "artificial", because of the first predominantly artificial element. Technetium has also been called Eka-manganese.[25]

52TelluriumTeLatinTellusEarthmythologicalFrom Latin "Tellus", which means "Earth" and also "Terra Mater", the goddess personifying the Mother Earth in Roman mythology[18]

65TerbiumTbSwedishYtterbyProper name (literally: outer village)toponymNamed after Ytterby, the village in Sweden where the element was first discovered.

81ThalliumTlGreek (thallos)green twigdescriptiveFrom Greek (thallos), which means "a green shoot (twig)", because of its bright green spectral emission lines.

90ThoriumThOld Norserr (Thor)thundermythologicalNamed after Thor, the god of thunder on Norse mythology.[18]The former name Ionium (Io) was given early in the study of radioactive elements to Th-230 isotope.

69ThuliumTmGreek, [61]a mythical countrymythologicalNamed after Thule, an ancient Roman and Greek name (, ) for a mythical country in the far north, perhaps Scandinavia. By the same token, Thulia, its oxide.

50TinSnAnglo-Saxon via Middle EnglishtinBorrowed from a Proto-Indo-European language, and has cognates in several Germanic and Celtic languages.[62]The symbol Sn is from its Latin name Stannum.

22TitaniumTiGreekTitan(gen.: )EarthmythologicalFrom Greek (titan), which means "Earth", and also "Titans", the first sons of Gaia in Greek mythology.[18]

74TungstenWSwedish and Danishtung stenheavy stonedescriptiveFrom the Swedish and Danish, "tung sten", which means "heavy stone". The symbol W is from scientific name, Wolfram. The element and its ore, "Wolframite", was named in honor of "Peter Woulfe", who discovered its existence. The names Wolfram or Volfram are still used in Swedish and several languages.[12]

118UnunoctiumUuosystematicIUPAC systematic element name based on Latin for 118. It is sometimes called Eka-radon.[25]

115UnunpentiumUupsystematicIUPAC systematic element name based on Latin for 115. It is sometimes called Eka-bismuth.[25]

117UnunseptiumUussystematicIUPAC systematic element name based on Latin for 117. It is sometimes called Eka-astatine.[25]

113UnuntriumUutsystematicIUPAC systematic element name based on Latin for 113. It is sometimes called Eka-thallium.[25]

92UraniumUGreek via Latin (Ouranos); Uranusskyastrological;mythologicalNamed after the planet Uranus, which had been discovered eight years earlier in 1781. The planet was named after "Uranus", the god of sky and heaven on Greek mythology.[18]

23VanadiumVOld NorseVanads"Ds of the Vanir"mythologicalFrom Vanads, one of the names of the Vanr goddess Freyja (of beauty) in Norse mythology, because of multicolored chemical compounds deemed beautiful.[18]

54XenonXeGreek (xenos)foreignFrom the Greek adjective (xenos), which means "foreign, a stranger".

70YtterbiumYbSwedishYtterbyproper name, literally: "outer village"toponymNamed after Ytterbia, the compound of Ytterbium. (The compound Ytterbia was named after Ytterby, the Swedish village (near Vaxholm) where found the minerals Gadolinite)[12]

39YttriumYSwedishYtterbyproper name, literally: "outer village"toponymNamed after Yttria, the (oxide) compound of Yttrium. (The compound Yttria was named after Ytterby, the village where found the minerals Gadolinite)[12]

30ZincZnGermanZinkCornet[63]From German Zink which is related to Zinken "prong, point." May be derived from Old Persian.

40ZirconiumZrSyriac/Persian via Arabic and German zargono,[64] (zargn)gold-likeFrom Arabic (zarkn). Derived from the Persian, (zargn), which means "gold like". Zirkon is the German variant of these and is the origin of the English "zircon."[65]

List of scientific laws named after peopleFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia(Redirected from Scientific laws named after people)This is a list of scientific laws named after people (eponymous laws). For other lists of eponyms, see eponym.LawFieldPerson(s) Named After

Abel's theoremCalculusNiels Henrik Abel

Amdahl's lawComputer scienceGene Amdahl

Ampre's circuital lawPhysicsAndr-Marie Ampre

Archie's lawGeologyGus Archie

Archimedes' principleAxiom of ArchimedesPhysicsAnalysisArchimedes

Arrhenius equationChemical kineticsSvante Arrhenius

Avogadro's lawThermodynamicsAmedeo Avogadro

Bell's theoremQuantum mechanicsJohn Stewart Bell

Benford's lawMathematicsFrank Benford

BeerLambert lawOpticsAugust Beer, Johann Heinrich Lambert

Bernoulli's principleBernoulli's equationPhysical sciencesDaniel Bernoulli

BiotSavart lawElectromagnetics, fluid dynamicsJean Baptiste Biot and Flix Savart

Birch's lawGeophysicsFrancis Birch

BogoliubovBornGreenKirkwoodYvon hierarchyPhysicsNikolay Bogoliubov, Max Born, Herbert Green, John Kirkwood, and J. Yvon

Bogoliubov transformationQuantum mechanicsNikolay Bogoliubov

Boltzmann equationThermodynamicsLudwig Boltzmann

Born's lawQuantum mechanicsMax Born

Boyle's lawThermodynamicsRobert Boyle

Bradford's lawComputer scienceSamuel C. Bradford

Buys Ballot's lawMeteorologyC.H.D. Buys Ballot

Byerlee's lawGeophysicsJames Byerlee

Carnot's theoremThermodynamicsNicolas Lonard Sadi Carnot

Cauchy's integral formulaCauchyRiemann equationsSee also: List of things named after Augustin-Louis CauchyComplex analysisAugustin Louis CauchyAugustin Louis Cauchy and Bernhard Riemann

CayleyHamilton theoremLinear algebraArthur Cayley and William Hamilton

Charles's lawThermodynamicsJacques Charles

ChurchTuring thesisComputer scienceAlonzo Church and Alan Turing

Coulomb's lawPhysicsCharles Augustin de Coulomb

Law of Charles and Gay-Lussac (frequently called Charles's law)ThermodynamicsJacques Charles and Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac

Clifford's theoremClifford's circle theoremsAlgebraic geometry, GeometryWilliam Kingdon Clifford

Curie's lawPhysicsPierre Curie

CurieWeiss lawPhysicsPierre Curie and Pierre-Ernest Weiss

D'Alembert's paradoxD'Alembert's principleFluid dynamics, PhysicsJean le Rond d'Alembert

Dalton's law of partial pressureThermodynamicsJohn Dalton

Darcy's lawFluid mechanicsHenry Darcy

De BruijnErds theoremMathematicsNicolaas Govert de Bruijn and Paul Erds

De Morgan's lawLogicAugustus De Morgan

Dermott's lawCelestial mechanicsStanley Dermott

Descartes' theoremGeometryRen Descartes

Dirac equationDirac delta functionDirac combDirac spinorDirac operatorSee also: List of things named after Paul DiracMathematics, PhysicsPaul Adrien Maurice Dirac

Drake equationCosmologyFrank Drake

Doppler effectPhysicsChristian Doppler

Ehrenfest's theoremQuantum mechanicsPaul Ehrenfest

Einstein's general theory of relativityEinstein's special theory of relativitySee also: List of things named after Albert EinsteinPhysicsAlbert Einstein

ErdsAnning theoremSee also: List of things named after Paul ErdsMathematicsPaul Erds and Norman H. Anning

ErdsBeck theoremMathematicsPaul Erds and Jzsef Beck

ErdsGallai theoremMathematicsPaul Erds and Tibor Gallai

ErdsKac theoremMathematicsPaul Erds and Mark Kac

ErdsKoRado theoremMathematicsPaul Erds, Ke Zhao, and Richard Rado

ErdsNagy theoremMathematicsPaul Erds and Bla Szkefalvi-Nagy

ErdsRado theoremMathematicsPaul Erds and Richard Rado

ErdsStone theoremMathematicsPaul Erds and Arthur Harold Stone

ErdsSzekeres theoremMathematicsPaul Erds and George Szekeres

ErdsSzemerdi theoremMathematicsPaul Erds and Endre Szemerdi

Euclid's theoremNumber theoryEuclid

Euler's theoremSee also: List of things named after Leonhard EulerNumber theoryLeonhard Euler

Faraday's law of inductionFaraday's law of electrolysisElectromagnetismChemistryMichael Faraday

Faxn's lawFluid dynamicsHilding Faxn

Fermat's principleFermat's last theoremFermat's little theoremOpticsNumber theoryNumber theoryPierre de Fermat

Fermi paradoxFermi's golden ruleFermi accelerationFermi holeFermionic fieldFermi levelSee also: List of things named after Enrico FermiCosmology, PhysicsEnrico Fermi

Fick's law of diffusionThermodynamicsAdolf Fick

Fitts's lawErgonomicsPaul Fitts

Fourier's lawThermodynamicsJean Baptiste Joseph Fourier

Gauss's lawGauss's law for magnetismGauss's principle of least constraintGauss's digamma theoremGauss's hypergeometric theoremGaussian functionSee also: List of things named after Carl Friedrich GaussMathematics, PhysicsJohann Carl Friedrich Gauss

GibbsHelmholtz equationThermodynamicsJosiah Willard Gibbs, Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz

Gdel's incompleteness theoremsMathematicsKurt Gdel

Graham's lawThermodynamicsThomas Graham

Grimm's lawLinguisticsJacob and Wilhelm Grimm

Gustafson's lawComputer scienceJohn L. Gustafson

Heisenberg's uncertainty principleTheoretical physicsWerner Heisenberg

HellmannFeynman theoremPhysicsHans Hellmann, Richard Feynman

Henry's lawThermodynamicsWilliam Henry

Hertz observationsElectromagnetismHeinrich Hertz

Hess's lawThermodynamicsGermain Henri Hess

Hilbert's basis theoremHilbert's axiomsHilbert functionHilbert's irreducibility theoremHilbert's syzygy theoremHilbert's Theorem 90Hilbert's theoremMathematicsDavid Hilbert

HohenbergKohn theoremQuantum mechanicsPierre Hohenberg and Walter Kohn

Helmholtz's theoremsHelmholtz theoremHelmholtz free energyHelmholtz decompositionHelmholtz equationHelmholtz resonanceThermodynamicsPhysicsHermann von Helmholtz

Hooke's lawPhysicsRobert Hooke

Hopkinson's lawElectromagnetismJohn Hopkinson

Hubble's lawCosmologyEdwin Hubble

Hund's rulesAtomic physicsFriedrich Hund

HuygensFresnel principleOpticsChristiaan Huygens and Augustin-Jean Fresnel

Joule's lawsPhysicsJames Joule

Jurin's lawPhysicsJames Jurin

Kasha's rulePhotochemistryMichael Kasha

Kepler's laws of planetary motionAstrophysicsJohannes Kepler

Kirchhoff's lawsElectronics, thermodynamicsGustav Kirchhoff

Kopp's lawThermodynamicsHermann Franz Moritz Kopp

Lagrangian pointLagrange reversion theoremLagrange polynomialLagrange's four-square theoremLagrange's theoremLagrange's theorem (group theory)Lagrange invariantLagrange multiplierSee also: List of things named after Joseph-Louis LagrangeMathematics, AstrophysicsJoseph-Louis Lagrange

Lamm equationChemistry, BiophysicsOle Lamm

Langmuir equationSurface ChemistryIrving Langmuir

Laplace transformLaplace's equationLaplace operatorLaplace distributionLaplace invariantLaplace expansionLaplace principleLaplace limitSee also: List of things named after Pierre-Simon LaplaceMathematicsPhysicsProbability TheoryStatistical mechanicsPierre-Simon Laplace

Le Chatelier's principleChemistryHenri Louis le Chatelier

Leibniz's lawOntologyGottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Lenz's lawPhysicsHeinrich Lenz

LeonardMerritt mass estimatorAstrophysicsPeter Leonard, David Merritt

l'Hpital's ruleMathematicsGuillaume de l'Hpital

Mach principleMach reflectionPhysicsErnst Mach

Marconi's lawRadio technologyGuglielmo Marconi

Markovnikov's ruleOrganic chemistryVladimir Markovnikov

Maupertuis' principleMathematicsPierre Louis Maupertuis

Maxwell's equationsMaxwell relationsElectrodynamicsThermodynamicsJames Clerk Maxwell

Mendelian inheritance/Mendel's lawsGeneticsGregor Mendel

Metcalfe's lawNetwork theoryRobert Metcalfe

MikheyevSmirnovWolfenstein effectParticle physicsStanislav Mikheyev, Alexei Smirnov, and Lincoln Wolfenstein

MilnerRado paradoxMathematical logicEric Charles Milner and Richard Rado

Minkowski's theoremNumber theoryHermann Minkowski

Mitscherlich's lawCrystallographyCondensed matter physicsEilhard Mitscherlich

Moore's lawComputingGordon Moore

Nash embedding theoremNash equilibriumTopologyGame TheoryJohn Forbes Nash

Nernst equationElectrochemistryWalther Nernst

Newton's law of coolingNewton's law of universal gravitationNewton's laws of motionSee also: List of things named after Isaac NewtonThermodynamicsAstrophysicsMechanicsIsaac Newton

Noether's theoremTheoretical physicsEmmy Noether

Nurgaliev's lawDemographyNurgaliev's law

NyquistShannon sampling theoremInformation theoryHarry Nyquist, Claude Elwood Shannon

Occam's razorPhilosophy of scienceWilliam of Ockham

Ohm's lawElectronicsGeorg Ohm

OsipkovMerritt modelAstrophysicsLeonid Osipkov, David Merritt

Ostwald dilution lawPhysical chemistryWilhelm Ostwald

PaleyWiener theoremMathematicsRaymond Paley and Norbert Wiener

Pareto distributionPareto efficiencyPareto indexPareto principleEconomicsVilfredo Pareto

Pascal's lawPascal's theoremPhysicsGeometryBlaise Pascal

Pauli exclusion principleQuantum mechanicsWolfgang Pauli

Peano axiomsFoundational mathematicsGiuseppe Peano

Planck's lawElectromagnetismMax Planck

PoincarBendixson theoremMathematicsHenri Poincar and Ivar Otto Bendixson

PoincarBirkhoffWitt theoremMathematicsHenri Poincar, George David Birkhoff, and Ernst Witt

PoincarHopf theoremMathematicsHenri Poincar and Heinz Hopf

Poincar recurrence theoremPoincar conjecturePoincar lemmaSee also: List of things named after Henri PoincarMathematicsHenri Poincar

Poiseuille's lawFluidicsJean Lonard Marie Poiseuille

Poisson distributionPoisson's equationSee also: List of things named after Simon Denis PoissonStatisticsCalculusSimon Denis Poisson

Price's theoremNatural selectionGeorge R. Price

Ptolemy's theoremGeometryPtolemy

Pythagorean theoremGeometryPythagoras

Raman scatteringPhysicsSir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman

Rado's theoremDiscrete mathematicsRichard Rado

RamanujanNagell equationSee also: List of things named after Srinivasa RamanujanMathematicsSrinivasa Ramanujan and Trygve Nagell

Raoult's lawPhysical chemistryFranois-Marie Raoult

Riemann zeta functionRiemann hypothesisRiemann integralRiemann lemmaRiemannian manifoldRiemann sphereRiemann theta functionSee also: List of things named after Bernhard RiemannNumber theory, analysis, geometryBernhard Riemann

Rolle's theoremDifferential calculusMichel Rolle

Saha ionization equationPlasma physicsMeghnad Saha

Schrdinger equationPhysicsErwin Schrdinger

Srsic's lawAstrophysicsJ. L. Srsic

Snell's lawOpticsWillebrord van Roijen Snell

SokolovTernov effectParticle PhysicsArsenij Sokolov and Igor Ternov

SommerfeldKossel displacement lawSpectroscopyArnold Sommerfeld and Walther Kossel

StefanBoltzmann lawThermodynamicsJoef Stefan and Ludwig Boltzmann

Stokes' lawFluid mechanicsGeorge Gabriel Stokes

Stoletov's lawPhotoelectric effectAleksandr Stoletov

Tarski's undefinability theoremTarski's axiomsSee also: List of things named after Alfred TarskiMathematical logic, GeometryAlfred Tarski

Thales' theoremGeometryThales

TitiusBode lawAstrophysicsJohann Daniel Titius and Johann Elert Bode

Torricelli's lawPhysicsEvangelista Torricelli

Umov effectPhysicsNikolay Umov

Van der Waals equationChemistryJohannes Diderik van der Waals

Vlasov equationPlasma physicsAnatoly Vlasov

Von Neumann bicommutant theoremVon Neumann entropyvon Neumann paradoxVon Neumann ergodic theoremVon Neumann universeVon Neumann neighborhoodVon Neumann's trace inequalitySee also: List of things named after John von NeumannMathematics, Quantum mechanicsJohn von Neumann

WeinbergWitten theoremQuantum GravitySteven Weinberg and Edward Witten

Weyl character formulaSee also: List of things named after Hermann WeylMathematicsHermann Weyl

Wien's lawPhysicsWilhelm Wien

WienerKhinchin theoremMathematicsNorbert Wiener and Aleksandr Khinchin

YoungLaplace equationFluid dynamicsThomas Young and Pierre-Simon Laplace

Zipf's lawLinguisticsGeorge Kingsley Zipf

List of fluid flows named after peopleFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaThis is a list of fluid flows named after people (eponymous flows).FlowDescriptionPerson(s) Named After

Beltrami flow[1]A flow in which velocity and vorticity are parallel to each otherEugenio Beltrami

Blasius flowBoundary layer flows along a flat plateHeinrich Blasius

Couette flowLaminar flow between two parallel flat platesMaurice Couette

FalknerSkan flowBoundary layer flows with pressure gradientV. M. Falkner and S. W. Skan

Fanno flowAdiabatic compressible flow with frictionGino Girolamo Fanno

HagenPoiseuille flowLaminar flow through pipesGotthilf Hagen and Jean Lonard Marie Poiseuille

HeleShaw flowViscous flow about a thin object filling a narrow gap between two parallel platesHenry Selby Hele-Shaw

Hiemenz flowPlane stagnation-point flow exact solution of Navier-Stokes equationK. Hiemenz

JefferyHamel flowViscous flow in a wedge shaped passageGeorge Barker Jeffery and Georg Hamel

Marangoni flowFlow induced by gradients in the surface tensionCarlo Marangoni

Oseen flowLow Reynolds number flows around sphereCarl Wilhelm Oseen

Plane Poiseuille flowLaminar flow between two fixed parallel flat platesJean Lonard Marie Poiseuille

PrandtlMeyer flowCompressible isentropic flow along a deflected wallLudwig Prandtl and Theodor Meyer

Rayleigh flowInviscid compressible flow with heat transferLord Rayleigh

Sampson flowFlow through a circular orifice in a plane wallR. A. Sampson

Stefan flowMovement of a chemical species by a flowing fluidJoseph Stefan

Stokes flowCreeping flows very slow motion of the fluidGeorge Gabriel Stokes

TaylorCouette flowFlow in annular space between two rotating cylindersSir G. I. Taylor and Maurice Couette

List of waves named after peopleFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaThis is a list of waves named after people (eponymous waves).WaveFieldPerson(s) named after

Alfvn waveMagnetohydrodynamicsHannes Alfvn

Bloch waveSolid state physics, condensed matter physicsFelix Bloch

de Broglie waveQuantum physicsLouis de Broglie

Elliott waveFinanceRalph Nelson Elliott

Faraday waveWater wavesMichael Faraday

Gerstner wave[1]Water waves, oceanographyFrantiek Josef Gerstner

Kelvin waveOceanography, atmospheric dynamicsLord Kelvin

Lamb waveAcoustics, elastic wavesHorace Lamb

Langmuir wavePlasma physicsIrving Langmuir

Love waveElastodynamics, surface wavesAugustus Edward Hough Love

Mach waveFluid dynamicsErnst Mach

Rayleigh wave or RayleighLamb waveSurface acoustic waves, seismologyLord Rayleigh and Horace Lamb

Rossby waveMeteorology, oceanographyCarl-Gustaf Rossby

Stokes waveSurface gravity waves, water wavesGeorge Gabriel Stokes

TollmienSchlichting waveStability of laminar flowsWalter Tollmien and Hermann Schlichting

List of scientific laws named after peopleFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaThis is a list of scientific laws named after people (eponymous laws). For other lists of eponyms, see eponym.LawFieldPerson(s) Named After

Abel's theoremCalculusNiels Henrik Abel

Amdahl's lawComputer scienceGene Amdahl

Ampre's circuital lawPhysicsAndr-Marie Ampre

Archie's lawGeologyGus Archie

Archimedes' principleAxiom of ArchimedesPhysicsAnalysisArchimedes

Arrhenius equationChemical kineticsSvante Arrhenius

Avogadro's lawThermodynamicsAmedeo Avogadro

Bell's theoremQuantum mechanicsJohn Stewart Bell

Benford's lawMathematicsFrank Benford

BeerLambert lawOpticsAugust Beer, Johann Heinrich Lambert

Bernoulli's principleBernoulli's equationPhysical sciencesDaniel Bernoulli

BiotSavart lawElectromagnetics, fluid dynamicsJean Baptiste Biot and Flix Savart

Birch's lawGeophysicsFrancis Birch

BogoliubovBornGreenKirkwoodYvon hierarchyPhysicsNikolay Bogoliubov, Max Born, Herbert Green, John Kirkwood, and J. Yvon

Bogoliubov transformationQuantum mechanicsNikolay Bogoliubov

Boltzmann equationThermodynamicsLudwig Boltzmann

Born's lawQuantum mechanicsMax Born

Boyle's lawThermodynamicsRobert Boyle

Bradford's lawComputer scienceSamuel C. Bradford

Buys Ballot's lawMeteorologyC.H.D. Buys Ballot

Byerlee's lawGeophysicsJames Byerlee

Carnot's theoremThermodynamicsNicolas Lonard Sadi Carnot

Cauchy's integral formulaCauchyRiemann equationsSee also: List of things named after Augustin-Louis CauchyComplex analysisAugustin Louis CauchyAugustin Louis Cauchy and Bernhard Riemann

CayleyHamilton theoremLinear algebraArthur Cayley and William Hamilton

Charles's lawThermodynamicsJacques Charles

ChurchTuring thesisComputer scienceAlonzo Church and Alan Turing

Coulomb's lawPhysicsCharles Augustin de Coulomb

Law of Charles and Gay-Lussac (frequently called Charles's law)ThermodynamicsJacques Charles and Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac

Clifford's theoremClifford's circle theoremsAlgebraic geometry, GeometryWilliam Kingdon Clifford

Curie's lawPhysicsPierre Curie

CurieWeiss lawPhysicsPierre Curie and Pierre-Ernest Weiss

D'Alembert's paradoxD'Alembert's principleFluid dynamics, PhysicsJean le Rond d'Alembert

Dalton's law of partial pressureThermodynamicsJohn Dalton

Darcy's lawFluid mechanicsHenry Darcy

De BruijnErds theoremMathematicsNicolaas Govert de Bruijn and Paul Erds

De Morgan's lawLogicAugustus De Morgan

Dermott's lawCelestial mechanicsStanley Dermott

Descartes' theoremGeometryRen Descartes

Dirac equationDirac delta functionDirac combDirac spinorDirac operatorSee also: List of things named after Paul DiracMathematics, PhysicsPaul Adrien Maurice Dirac

Drake equationCosmologyFrank Drake

Doppler effectPhysicsChristian Doppler

Ehrenfest's theoremQuantum mechanicsPaul Ehrenfest

Einstein's general theory of relativityEinstein's special theory of relativitySee also: List of things named after Albert EinsteinPhysicsAlbert Einstein

ErdsAnning theoremSee also: List of things named after Paul ErdsMathematicsPaul Erds and Norman H. Anning

ErdsBeck theoremMathematicsPaul Erds and Jzsef Beck

ErdsGallai theoremMathematicsPaul Erds and Tibor Gallai

ErdsKac theoremMathematicsPaul Erds and Mark Kac

ErdsKoRado theoremMathematicsPaul Erds, Ke Zhao, and Richard Rado

ErdsNagy theoremMathematicsPaul Erds and Bla Szkefalvi-Nagy

ErdsRado theoremMathematicsPaul Erds and Richard Rado

ErdsStone theoremMathematicsPaul Erds and Arthur Harold Stone

ErdsSzekeres theoremMathematicsPaul Erds and George Szekeres

ErdsSzemerdi theoremMathematicsPaul Erds and Endre Szemerdi

Euclid's theoremNumber theoryEuclid

Euler's theoremSee also: List of things named after Leonhard EulerNumber theoryLeonhard Euler

Faraday's law of inductionFaraday's law of electrolysisElectromagnetismChemistryMichael Faraday

Faxn's lawFluid dynamicsHilding Faxn

Fermat's principleFermat's last theoremFermat's little theoremOpticsNumber theoryNumber theoryPierre de Fermat

Fermi paradoxFermi's golden ruleFermi accelerationFermi holeFermionic fieldFermi levelSee also: List of things named after Enrico FermiCosmology, PhysicsEnrico Fermi

Fick's law of diffusionThermodynamicsAdolf Fick

Fitts's lawErgonomicsPaul Fitts

Fourier's lawThermodynamicsJean Baptiste Joseph Fourier

Gauss's lawGauss's law for magnetismGauss's principle of least constraintGauss's digamma theoremGauss's hypergeometric theoremGaussian functionSee also: List of things named after Carl Friedrich GaussMathematics, PhysicsJohann Carl Friedrich Gauss

GibbsHelmholtz equationThermodynamicsJosiah Willard Gibbs, Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz

Gdel's incompleteness theoremsMathematicsKurt Gdel

Graham's lawThermodynamicsThomas Graham

Grimm's lawLinguisticsJacob and Wilhelm Grimm

Gustafson's lawComputer scienceJohn L. Gustafson

Heisenberg's uncertainty principleTheoretical physicsWerner Heisenberg

HellmannFeynman theoremPhysicsHans Hellmann, Richard Feynman

Henry's lawThermodynamicsWilliam Henry

Hertz observationsElectromagnetismHeinrich Hertz

Hess's lawThermodynamicsGermain Henri Hess

Hilbert's basis theoremHilbert's axiomsHilbert functionHilbert's irreducibility theoremHilbert's syzygy theoremHilbert's Theorem 90Hilbert's theoremMathematicsDavid Hilbert

HohenbergKohn theoremQuantum mechanicsPierre Hohenberg and Walter Kohn

Helmholtz's theoremsHelmholtz theoremHelmholtz free energyHelmholtz decompositionHelmholtz equationHelmholtz resonanceThermodynamicsPhysicsHermann von Helmholtz

Hooke's lawPhysicsRobert Hooke

Hopkinson's lawElectromagnetismJohn Hopkinson

Hubble's lawCosmologyEdwin Hubble

Hund's rulesAtomic physicsFriedrich Hund

HuygensFresnel principleOpticsChristiaan Huygens and Augustin-Jean Fresnel

Joule's lawsPhysicsJames Joule

Jurin's lawPhysicsJames Jurin

Kasha's rulePhotochemistryMichael Kasha

Kepler's laws of planetary motionAstrophysicsJohannes Kepler

Kirchhoff's lawsElectronics, thermodynamicsGustav Kirchhoff

Kopp's lawThermodynamicsHermann Franz Moritz Kopp

Lagrangian pointLagrange reversion theoremLagrange polynomialLagrange's four-square theoremLagrange's theoremLagrange's theorem (group theory)Lagrange invariantLagrange multiplierSee also: List of things named after Joseph-Louis LagrangeMathematics, AstrophysicsJoseph-Louis Lagrange

Lamm equationChemistry, BiophysicsOle Lamm

Langmuir equationSurface ChemistryIrving Langmuir

Laplace transformLaplace's equationLaplace operatorLaplace distributionLaplace invariantLaplace expansionLaplace principleLaplace limitSee also: List of things named after Pierre-Simon LaplaceMathematicsPhysicsProbability TheoryStatistical mechanicsPierre-Simon Laplace

Le Chatelier's principleChemistryHenri Louis le Chatelier

Leibniz's lawOntologyGottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Lenz's lawPhysicsHeinrich Lenz

LeonardMerritt mass estimatorAstrophysicsPeter Leonard, David Merritt

l'Hpital's ruleMathematicsGuillaume de l'Hpital

Mach principleMach reflectionPhysicsErnst Mach

Marconi's lawRadio technologyGuglielmo Marconi

Markovnikov's ruleOrganic chemistryVladimir Markovnikov

Maupertuis' principleMathematicsPierre Louis Maupertuis

Maxwell's equationsMaxwell relationsElectrodynamicsThermodynamicsJames Clerk Maxwell

Mendelian inheritance/Mendel's lawsGeneticsGregor Mendel

Metcalfe's lawNetwork theoryRobert Metcalfe

MikheyevSmirnovWolfenstein effectParticle physicsStanislav Mikheyev, Alexei Smirnov, and Lincoln Wolfenstein

MilnerRado paradoxMathematical logicEric Charles Milner and Richard Rado

Minkowski's theoremNumber theoryHermann Minkowski

Mitscherlich's lawCrystallographyCondensed matter physicsEilhard Mitscherlich

Moore's lawComputingGordon Moore

Nash embedding theoremNash equilibriumTopologyGame TheoryJohn Forbes Nash

Nernst equationElectrochemistryWalther Nernst

Newton's law of coolingNewton's law of universal gravitationNewton's laws of motionSee also: List of things named after Isaac NewtonThermodynamicsAstrophysicsMechanicsIsaac Newton

Noether's theoremTheoretical physicsEmmy Noether

Nurgaliev's lawDemographyNurgaliev's law

NyquistShannon sampling theoremInformation theoryHarry Nyquist, Claude Elwood Shannon

Occam's razorPhilosophy of scienceWilliam of Ockham

Ohm's lawElectronicsGeorg Ohm

OsipkovMerritt modelAstrophysicsLeonid Osipkov, David Merritt

Ostwald dilution lawPhysical chemistryWilhelm Ostwald

PaleyWiener theoremMathematicsRaymond Paley and Norbert Wiener

Pareto distributionPareto efficiencyPareto indexPareto principleEconomicsVilfredo Pareto

Pascal's lawPascal's theoremPhysicsGeometryBlaise Pascal

Pauli exclusion principleQuantum mechanicsWolfgang Pauli

Peano axiomsFoundational mathematicsGiuseppe Peano

Planck's lawElectromagnetismMax Planck

PoincarBendixson theoremMathematicsHenri Poincar and Ivar Otto Bendixson

PoincarBirkhoffWitt theoremMathematicsHenri Poincar, George David Birkhoff, and Ernst Witt

PoincarHopf theoremMathematicsHenri Poincar and Heinz Hopf

Poincar recurrence theoremPoincar conjecturePoincar lemmaSee also: List of things named after Henri PoincarMathematicsHenri Poincar

Poiseuille's lawFluidicsJean Lonard Marie Poiseuille

Poisson distributionPoisson's equationSee also: List of things named after Simon Denis PoissonStatisticsCalculusSimon Denis Poisson

Price's theoremNatural selectionGeorge R. Price

Ptolemy's theoremGeometryPtolemy

Pythagorean theoremGeometryPythagoras

Raman scatteringPhysicsSir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman

Rado's theoremDiscrete mathematicsRichard Rado

RamanujanNagell equationSee also: List of things named after Srinivasa RamanujanMathematicsSrinivasa Ramanujan and Trygve Nagell

Raoult's lawPhysical chemistryFranois-Marie Raoult

Riemann zeta functionRiemann hypothesisRiemann integralRiemann lemmaRiemannian manifoldRiemann sphereRiemann theta functionSee also: List of things named after Bernhard RiemannNumber theory, analysis, geometryBernhard Riemann

Rolle's theoremDifferential calculusMichel Rolle

Saha ionization equationPlasma physicsMeghnad Saha

Schrdinger equationPhysicsErwin Schrdinger

Srsic's lawAstrophysicsJ. L. Srsic

Snell's lawOpticsWillebrord van Roijen Snell

SokolovTernov effectParticle PhysicsArsenij Sokolov and Igor Ternov

SommerfeldKossel displacement lawSpectroscopyArnold Sommerfeld and Walther Kossel

StefanBoltzmann lawThermodynamicsJoef Stefan and Ludwig Boltzmann

Stokes' lawFluid mechanicsGeorge Gabriel Stokes

Stoletov's lawPhotoelectric effectAleksandr Stoletov

Tarski's undefinability theoremTarski's axiomsSee also: List of things named after Alfred TarskiMathematical logic, GeometryAlfred Tarski

Thales' theoremGeometryThales

TitiusBode lawAstrophysicsJohann Daniel Titius and Johann Elert Bode

Torricelli's lawPhysicsEvangelista Torricelli

Umov effectPhysicsNikolay Umov

Van der Waals equationChemistryJohannes Diderik van der Waals

Vlasov equationPlasma physicsAnatoly Vlasov

Von Neumann bicommutant theoremVon Neumann entropyvon Neumann paradoxVon Neumann ergodic theoremVon Neumann universeVon Neumann neighborhoodVon Neumann's trace inequalitySee also: List of things named after John von NeumannMathematics, Quantum mechanicsJohn von Neumann

WeinbergWitten theoremQuantum GravitySteven Weinberg and Edward Witten

Weyl character formulaSee also: List of things named after Hermann WeylMathematicsHermann Weyl

Wien's lawPhysicsWilhelm Wien

WienerKhinchin theoremMathematicsNorbert Wiener and Aleksandr Khinchin

YoungLaplace equationFluid dynamicsThomas Young and Pierre-Simon Laplace

Zipf's lawLinguisticsGeorge Kingsley Zipf