List of scientists whose names are used in physical constants
Appearance
Some of the constants used in science are named after great scientists. By this convention, their names are immortalised. Below is the list of the scientists whose names are used in physical constants.
List of the scientists and the physical constants
Name of the scientist | Life | Nationality | Name of the constant |
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Isaac Newton | 1643–1727 | British | Newtonian constant of gravitation
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Leonhard Euler | 1707–1783 | Swiss | Euler's number
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Charles-Augustin de Coulomb | 1736–1806 | French | Coulomb constant
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Amedeo Avogadro | 1776–1856 | Italian
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Avogadro constant |
Michael Faraday | 1791–1867 | British | Faraday constant |
Johann Josef Loschmidt | 1821–1895 | Austrian | Loschmidt constant |
Johann Jakob Balmer | 1825–1898 | Swiss | Balmer's constant
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Josef Stefan | 1835–1893 | Slovene/Austrian | Stefan's constant[2]
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Ludwig Boltzmann | 1844–1906 | Austrian | Boltzmann constant |
Henri Victor Regnault | 1810-1878 | French | Regnault constant |
Johannes Rydberg | 1854–1919 | Swedish | Rydberg constant |
J. J. Thomson | 1856–1940 | British | Thomson cross section
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Erwin Madelung | 1881–1972 | German | Madelung constant |
Max Planck | 1858–1947 | German | Planck constant |
Wilhelm Wien | 1864–1928 | German | Wien's constant
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Arnold Sommerfeld | 1868-1951 | German | Sommerfeld constant
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Owen Willans Richardson | 1879–1959 | British | Richardson constant |
Otto Sackur | 1880–1914 | German | Sackur–Tetrode constant
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Niels Bohr | 1885–1962 | Danish | Bohr magneton, Bohr radius |
Ludvig Lorenz | 1829–1891 | Danish | Lorenz number |
Edwin Hubble | 1889–1953 | American
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Hubble constant[3] |
Hugo Tetrode | 1895–1931 | Dutch | Sackur–Tetrode constant
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Douglas Hartree | 1897–1958 | British | Hartree energy
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Enrico Fermi | 1901–1954 | Italian/American | Fermi coupling constant
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Roger Apéry | 1916–1994 | Greek/French | Apéry's constant |
Brian Josephson | 1940 | British | Josephson constant
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Klaus von Klitzing | 1943 | German | von Klitzing constant
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Émile Verdet | 1824-1866 | French | Verdet constant |
See also
- List of scientists whose names are used as units
- List of chemical elements named after people
- Unit of measurement
References and notes
- ISBN 0-330-24323-3
- Stefan–Boltzmann constant
- ^ A factor of proportionality, later on, corrected several times. Also called Hubble Humason constant (Milton L. Humason, 1881–1972)