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