List of scientists whose names are used in physical constants
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 | Newton's constant |
Leonhard Euler | 1707–1783 | Swiss | Euler's number |
Charles-Augustin de Coulomb | 1736–1806 | French | Coulomb's constant |
Amedeo Avogadro | 1776–1856 | Italian | 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 |
Joseph Stefan | 1835–1893 | Slovene/Austrian | Stefan's constant[2] |
Ludwig Boltzmann | 1844–1906 | Austrian | Boltzmann constant |
Johannes Robert Rydberg | 1854–1919 | Swedish | Rydberg constant |
Joseph John Thomson | 1856–1940 | British | Thomson cross section |
Max Planck | 1858–1947 | German | Planck constant |
Wilhelm Wien | 1864–1928 | German | Wien's constant |
Owen Willans Richardson | 1879–1959 | British | Richardson constant |
Otto Sackur | 1880–1914 | German | Sackur-Tetrode constant |
Niels Bohr | 1885–1962 | Danish | Bohr magneton, Bohr radius |
Edwin Hubble | 1889–1953 | American | Hubble constant[3] |
Hugo Tetrode | 1895–1931 | Dutch | Sackur-Tetrode constant |
Douglas Hartree | 1897–1958 | British | Hartree energy |
Enrico Fermi | 1901–1954 | Italian/American | Fermi coupling constant |
Roger Apéry | 1916–1994 | Greek/French | Apéry's constant |
Brian David Josephson | 1940 | British | Josephson constant |
Klaus von Klitzing | 1943 | German | von Klitzing constant |
See also
- List of scientists whose names are used as SI units
- List of scientists whose names are used as non SI units
- List of people whose names are used in chemical element names
- Units of measurement
References and notes
- Isaac Asimov: Asimov's Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology Pan Reference Books, London, 1972, ISBN 0-330-24323-3
- Also called Stefan-Boltzmann constant
- A factor of proportionality, later on corrected several times. Also called Hubble Humason constant ( Milton L. Humason , 1881–1972)
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