Scientific namesakes

This page is for scientific terms named after famous people.

• ohm - unit of electrical resistance named after Georg Ohm
• volt - unit of electrical force named after Alessandro Volta
• ampere - unit of electrical current name after Andre-Marie Ampere
• curie - unit of radiation named after Madame Curie, who discovered the radioactive element radium.
• curium - an element, also named after Curie.
• newton - unit of force named after Sir Isaac Newton, famous for the equation F = ma (force = mass × acceleration)
• roentgen - for Wilhelm Roentgen

• Einsteinium
• Darwinism
• Pasteurization
• Freudian slip
• Kepler's Laws
• The Galilean moons
• Maxwell's equations
• Maxwell's demon
• Heisenberg uncertainty principle
• Schrodinger's cat
• Tycho (crater)
• Planck's constant
• Laplace transform
• Hubble space telescope
• Fermilab
• Euler's formula
• Gauss's law
• gauss (unit)
• Kirchhoff's laws
• Euclidean geometry
• Mendelian inheritance
• Linnaean taxonomy
• Hawking Radiation