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This page is for scientific terms named after famous people. | This page is for scientific terms named after famous people. | ||
* [[ohm]] - unit of electrical resistance named after [[Georg Ohm]] | * [[ohm]] - unit of electrical resistance named after [[Georg Ohm]] | ||
| − | * [[volt]] - unit of electrical force named after [[Alessandro Volta]] | + | * [[volt]] - unit of electrical force named after [[Alessandro Volta]] |
* [[ampere]] - unit of electrical current name after [[Andre-Marie Ampere]] | * [[ampere]] - unit of electrical current name after [[Andre-Marie Ampere]] | ||
* [[curie (unit)|curie]] - unit of radiation named after [[Madame Curie]], who discovered the [[radioactive]] element [[radium]]. | * [[curie (unit)|curie]] - unit of radiation named after [[Madame Curie]], who discovered the [[radioactive]] element [[radium]]. | ||
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*[[gauss (unit)]] | *[[gauss (unit)]] | ||
*[[Kirchhoff's laws]] | *[[Kirchhoff's laws]] | ||
| − | *[[Euclidean geometry]] | + | *[[Euclidean geometry ]] |
*[[Mendelian inheritance]] | *[[Mendelian inheritance]] | ||
*[[Linnaean taxonomy]] | *[[Linnaean taxonomy]] | ||
*[[Black hole|Hawking Radiation]] | *[[Black hole|Hawking Radiation]] | ||
Revision as of 02:30, September 2, 2011
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