From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia List of scientific constants named after people
List of scientific constants named after people
This is a list of physical and mathematical constants • Josephson constant — Brian David Josephson
named after people. • Kerr constant — John Kerr
• Archimedes’ constant — Archimedes • Loschmidt constant — Johann Josef Loschmidt
• Avogadro’s number — Amedeo Avogadro • Planck’s constant — Max Planck
• Bohr magneton — Niels Bohr • Rydberg constant — Johannes Rydberg
• Bohr radius — Niels Bohr • Sackur–Tetrode constant — Otto Sackur and Hugo
• Boltzmann constant — Ludwig Boltzmann Tetrode
• Cabibbo angle — Nicola Cabibbo • Stefan–Boltzmann constant — Jožef Stefan and
• Chandrasekhar limit — Subrahmanyan Ludwig Boltzmann
Chandrasekhar • von Klitzing constant — Klaus von Klitzing
• Coulomb’s constant — Charles-Augustin de Coulomb • Wien displacement law constant — Wilhelm Wien
• Eddington number — Arthur Stanley Eddington
• Euler’s constant — Leonhard Euler
• Faraday constant — Michael Faraday
See also
• Feigenbaum constants — Mitchell Feigenbaum • Eponym, for other lists of eponyms (names derived
• Hartree energy — Douglas Hartree from people)
• Hubble’s constant — Edwin Hubble • List of eponyms, for a list of eponyms sorted by name
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