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This is a list of scientific principles named after people (eponymous laws). For other lists of eponyms, see eponym.
| Principle | Field | Person(s) Named After |
|---|---|---|
| Archimedes' principle | Fluid mechanics | Archimedes |
| Bernoulli's principle Bernoulli's equation |
Fluid dynamics | Daniel Bernoulli |
| Coulter principle | Electricity | Wallace H. Coulter |
| Curtin-Hammett principle | Chemical kinetics | Louis Plack Hammett and David Y. Curtin |
| Fermat's principle | Optics | Pierre de Fermat |
| Hardy-Weinberg principle | Population genetics | G. H. Hardy and Wilhelm Weinberg |
| Hasse principle | Algebraic number theory | Helmut Hasse |
| Heisenberg's uncertainty principle | Theoretical physics | Werner Heisenberg |
| Huygens-Fresnel principle | Optics | Christiaan Huygens and Augustin-Jean Fresnel |
| Le Chatelier's principle | Chemistry | Henri Louis le Chatelier |
| Mach's principle | Theoretical physics | Ernst Mach |
| Pauli exclusion principle | Quantum mechanics | Wolfgang Pauli |
See also[edit]
- Eponym
- Fields of science
- List of eponymous laws — overlaps with this list but includes non-scientific laws such as Murphy's law and Moore's law.
- List of laws in science
- Lists of etymologies
- Scientific constants named after people
- Scientific phenomena named after people