This is a list of scientific phenomena named after people (eponymous phenomena). For other lists of eponyms, see eponym.
The list
A to J
- Allais effect – Maurice Allais
- Auger electron – Pierre Victor Auger
- Bohr model – Neils Bohr
- Bose-Einstein condensate, Bose-Einstein statistics – Satyendra Nath Bose and Albert Einstein
- Brownian motion – Robert Brown
- Casimir effect – Hendrik Casimir
- Cherenkov radiation – Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov
- Coanda effect – Henri Coanda
- Compton effect – Arthur Compton
- Coriolis effect – Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis
- Curie point – Pierre Curie
- Doppler effect, Doppler profile – Christian Doppler
- Early effect – James Early
- Edison effect – Thomas Edison
- Fermat's principle, Pierre de Fermat
- Fermi energy, Fermi paradox, Fermi surface – Enrico Fermi
- Fermi-Dirac statistics – Enrico Fermi and Paul Dirac
- Gibbs phenomenon – Josiah Willard Gibbs
- Hall effect – Edwin Hall
- Heisenberg uncertainty principle – Werner Heisenberg
- Huygens' principle — Christiaan Huygens
- Hertz effect – Heinrich Hertz
- Planck mass, Planck length – Max Planck
- Josephson effect – Brian David Josephson
K to P
- Kapitza-Dirac effect – Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitza and Paul Dirac
- Kennelly-Heaviside layer – Arthur Edwin Kennelly and Oliver Heaviside
- Kohn-Sham equations– Walter Kohn and Lu Jeu Sham
- Kerr effect – John Kerr (physicist)
- Krebs cycle – Sir Hans Adolf Krebs
- Kuiper Belt – Gerard Kuiper
- Lagrangian mechanics, Lagrange point, Joseph Louis Lagrange
- Landau damping – Lev Davidovich Landau
- Landau pole – Lev Davidovich Landau
- Lennard-Jones potential – John Lennard-Jones
- London force – Fritz London
- Lorentz force – Hendrik Lorentz
- Loschmidt's paradox – Johann Loschmidt
- Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution – James Clark Maxwell and Ludwig Boltzmann
- Meissner effect (or Meissner-Ochsenfeld effect) – Walter Meissner (and Robert Ochsenfeld)
- Misznay-Schardin effect – ? Miznay and Hubert Schardin
- Mohorovičić discontinuity (Moho) – Andrija Mohorovičić
- Morse potential – Philip M. Morse
- Mossbauer effect – Rudolf Mössbauer
- Munroe effect – Charles E. Munroe
- Newton's rings, Newtonian mechanics – Isaac Newton
- Oort cloud (or Öpik-Oort Cloud) – Jan Oort (Ernst Julius Öpik)
- Pauli exclusion principle – Wolfgang Pauli
- Peltier effect – Jean Charles Athanase Peltier
- Pockels effect – Friedrich Carl Alwin Pockels
R to Z
- Raman effect – C. V. Raman
- Rayleigh scattering, Rayleigh fading, Rayleigh waves – Lord Rayleigh
- Runge's phenomenon – Carle David Tolmé Runge
- St. Elmo's fire – Saint Elmo
- Schottky effect – Walter H. Schottky
- Seebeck effect – Thomas Johann Seebeck
- Stark effect – Johannes Stark
- Sunyaev-Zeldovic effect – Rashid Sunyaev and Yakov B. Zeldovic
- Tesla effect – Nikola Tesla
- Thomas-Fermi model – Enrico Fermi and Thomas
- Van Allen radiation belt – James Van Allen
- Van der Waals force – Johannes Diderik van der Waals
- Wigner energy, Wigner energy – Eugene Wigner
- Zeeman effect – Pieter Zeeman