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== E ==
Early effect – James M. Early
Eddington limit – Arthur Eddington
Edgeworth–Bowley box – Francis Ysidro Edgeworth and Arthur Lyon Bowley
Edison effect – Thomas Edison
Edman degradation – Pehr Victor Edman
Edward–Lemieux effect (a.k.a. Anomeric effect) – John Thomas Edward and Raymond U. Lemieux
Eglinton reaction – Geoffrey Eglinton
Ehrenfest paradox – Paul Ehrenfest
Eimer's organ – Gustav Heinrich Theodor Eimer
Einstein Cross, effect, radius, ring, shift – Albert Einstein
Einstein–Chwolson ring or Chwolson ring – Albert Einstein and Orest Khvolson
Einstein–de Haas effect – Albert Einstein and Wander Johannes de Haas
Einstein–Podolsky–Rosen paradox (a.k.a. EPR paradox, Einstein–Podolsky–Rosen–Bohm paradox) – Albert Einstein, Boris Podolsky, Nathan Rosen (and David Bohm)
Ekman layer – Walfrid Ekman
Elbs reaction – Karl Elbs
Elliott–Halberstam conjecture – Peter D. T. A. Elliott and Heini Halberstam
Elman network – Jeff Elman
Elsasser number – Walter M. Elsasser
Engel curve – Ernst Engel
Engelbart's law – Douglas Engelbart
Epimenides paradox – Epimenides of Knossos
Erlenmeyer flask, rule, synthesis – Richard August Carl Emil Erlenmeyer
Eschenmoser fragmentation – Albert Eschenmoser
Eschweiler–Clarke reaction – Wilhelm Eschweiler and Hans Thacher Clarke
Eshelby's inclusion – John D. Eshelby
Étard reaction – Alexandre Léon Étard
Ettingshausen effect – Albert von Ettingshausen
Euler this and that (numerous entries) – Leonhard Euler
Evershed effect – John Evershed

== F ==
Faà di Bruno's formula – Francesco Faà di Bruno
Faraday constant, effect, Faraday's law of induction, Faraday's law of electrolysis – Michael Faraday
Farnsworth–Hirsch fusor – Philo T. Farnsworth and Robert L. Hirsch
Favorskii reaction, rearrangement – Alexei Yevgrafovich Favorskii
Fenton reaction – Henry John Horstman Fenton
Fermat's principle – Pierre de Fermat
Fermi energy, paradox, surface, Fermion – Enrico Fermi
Fermi–Dirac statistics – Enrico Fermi and Paul Dirac
Ferrel cell – William Ferrel
Ferrers diagram (a.k.a. Young diagram, Ferrers graph) – Norman Macleod Ferrers
Feshbach resonance – Herman Feshbach
Feynman diagram – Richard Feynman
Finkelstein reaction – Hans Finkelstein
Fischer esterification, indole synthesis – Emil Hermann Fischer
Fischer–Hafner reaction – Ernst Otto Fischer and Walter Hafner
Fischer–Tropsch process – Franz Joseph Emil Fischer and Hans Tropsch
Fischer–Hepp rearrangement – Otto Philipp Fischer and Eduard Hepp
Fisher distribution – Ronald A. Fisher
Fisher equation – Irving Fisher
Fisher–Widom line – Michael E. Fisher and Benjamin Widom
Fitts's law – Paul M. Fitts
Flesch–Kincaid readability test – Rudolf F. Flesch and J. Peter Kincaid
Fletcher–Munson curves – Harvey Fletcher and Wilden A. Munson
Flynn effect – Jim Flynn
Föppl–von Kármán equations – August Föppl and Theodore von Kármán
Forbush effect – Scott Ellsworth Forbush
Forer effect (a.k.a. Barnum effect) – Bertram R. Forer (and Phineas Taylor Barnum)
Foucault pendulum – Jean Bernard Léon Foucault
Fourier number – Joseph Fourier
Fourier series – Joseph Fourier
Fourier–Motzkin elimination – Joseph Fourier and Theodore Motzkin
Franck–Condon principle – James Franck and Edward Uhler Condon
Franssen effect – Nico Franssen
Franz–Keldysh effect – Walter Franz and Leonid V. Keldysh
Fraunhofer diffraction, lines – Joseph von Fraunhofer
Freeman law – Ken Freeman
Frenkel line – Jacov Frenkel
Fresnel zone – Augustin Fresnel
Frey effect – Allan H. Frey
Friedel oscillations – Jacques Friedel
Friedel–Crafts reaction – Charles Friedel and James Mason Crafts
Friedländer synthesis – Paul Friedländer
Friedmann–Lemaître–Robertson–Walker metric (a.k.a. Friedmann–Robertson–Walker metric, Robertson–Walker metric) – Alexander Friedmann, Georges Lemaître, Howard P. Robertson and Arthur Geoffrey Walker
Fries and photo-Fries rearrangement – Karl Theophil Fries
Fritsch–Buttenberg–Wiechell rearrangement – Paul Ernst Moritz Fritsch, Wilhelm Paul Buttenberg, and Heinrich G. Wiechell
Frobenius algebra, automorphism, method, norm, theorem – Ferdinand Georg Frobenius
Froude number – William Froude
Fry readability formula – Edward Fry
Fujita scale (a.k.a. F-Scale, Fujita–Pearson scale) – Tetsuya Theodore Fujita (and Allen Pearson)
Fujiwhara effect – Sakuhei Fujiwhara