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This is a list of scientific laws named after people (eponymous laws). For other lists of eponyms, see eponym.


== See also ==
Eponym
Fields of science
List of eponymous laws (overlaps with this list but includes non-scientific laws such as Murphy's law)
List of legislation named for a person
List of laws in science
Lists of etymologies
Scientific constants named after people
Scientific phenomena named after people
Stigler's law of eponymy


== Further reading ==
Ballentyne, D. W. G.; Lovett, D. R. (1980). A dictionary of named effects and laws in chemistry, physics, and mathematics (4th ed.). Chapman and Hall. ISBN 978-0-412-22380-8.