User:Salih/TestPage/Scientific laws named after people

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

Law	Field	Person(s) Named After
Amdahl's law	Computer science	Gene Amdahl
Ampère's law	Physics	André-Marie Ampère
Archie's law	Geology	Gus Archie
Avogadro's law	Thermodynamics	Amedeo Avogadro
Beer-Lambert law	Optics	August Beer, Johann Heinrich Lambert
Biot-Savart law	Electromagnetics, Fluid dynamics	Jean Baptiste Biot and Felix Savart
Boyle's law	Thermodynamics	Robert Boyle
Bradford's law	Computer science	Samuel C. Bradford
Buys-Ballot's law	Meteorology	C.H.D. Buys Ballot
Charles's law	Thermodynamics	Jacques Charles
Coulomb's law	Electrostatics	Charles Augustin de Coulomb
Charles law	Thermodynamics	Jacques Charles
Dalton's law of partial pressure	Thermodynamics	John Dalton
Darcy's Law	Fluid mechanics	Henry Darcy
De Morgan's law	Logic	Augustus De Morgan
Dermott's Law	Celestial mechanics	Stanley Dermott
Faraday's law of induction Faraday's law of electrolysis	Electromagnetism Chemistry	Michael Faraday
Fick's law of diffusion	Thermodynamics	Adolf Fick
Fitts' law	Ergonomics	Paul Fitts
Fourier's law of conduction	Heat transfer	Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier
Gauss' law	Physics	Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss
Gay-Lussac's law	Thermodynamics	Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac
Graham's law	Thermodynamics	Thomas Graham
Henry's law	Thermodynamics	William Henry
Hess's law	Thermodynamics	Germain Henri Hess
Hooke's law	Solid mechanics	Robert Hooke
Hubble's law	Cosmology	Edwin Hubble
Joule's law	Thermodynamics	James Joule
Kepler's laws of planetary motion	Astrophysics	Johannes Kepler
Kirchhoff's laws	Electronics, Thermodynamics	Gustav Kirchhoff
Kopp's Law	Thermodynamics	Hermann Franz Moritz Kopp
Kutta-Joukowski law	Fluid dynamics	Martin Wilhelm Kutta and Nikolai Joukowski
Lambert's cosine law	Optics, Thermal radiation	Johann Heinrich Lambert
Leibniz's law	Ontology	Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Lenz's law	Physics	Heinrich Lenz
Metcalfe's law	Network theory	Robert Metcalfe
Moore's law	Computing	Gordon Moore
Newton's law of cooling Newton's law of gravitation Newton's laws of motion Newton's law of viscosity	Thermodynamics Astrophysics Classical Mechanics Fluid dynamics	Isaac Newton
Nurgaliev's law	Demography	Nurgaliev
Ohm's law	Electronics	Georg Ohm
Pascal's law	Fluid mechanics	Blaise Pascal
Planck's law of black body radiation	Thermal radiation	Max Planck
Poiseuille's law	Fluid dynamics	Jean Louis Marie Poiseuille
Raoult's law	Physical chemistry	Francois Marie Raoult
Snell's law	Optics	Willebrord van Roijen Snell
Sommerfeld-Kossel displacement law	Spectroscopy	Arnold Sommerfeld and Walther Kossel
Stefan-Boltzmann law	Heat transfer	Jožef Stefan and Ludwig Boltzmann
Stokes' law (drag) Stokes' law of viscosity Stokes' law (sound attenuation)	Fluid dynamics Fluid dynamics Physics	George Gabriel Stokes
Titius-Bode law	Astrophysics	Johann Daniel Titius and Johann Elert Bode
Torricelli's law	Physics	Evangelista Torricelli
Weber–Fechner law	Psychological theories	Ernst Heinrich Weber and Gustav Fechner
Wien's displacement law	Thermal radiation	Wilhelm Wien

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