List of scientific constants named after people

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This is a list of physical and mathematical constants named after people.

For other lists of eponyms (names derived from people) see eponym.

For a list of eponyms sorted by name see List of eponyms.

• Archimedes' constant — Archimedes
• Avogadro's number — Amedeo Avogadro
• Bohr magneton — Niels Bohr
• Bohr radius — Niels Bohr
• Boltzmann constant — Ludwig Boltzmann
• Cabibbo angle — Nicola Cabibbo
• Chandrasekhar limit — Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
• Coulomb's constant — Charles-Augustin de Coulomb
• Eddington number — Arthur Stanley Eddington
• Euler's constant — Leonhard Euler
• Faraday constant — Michael Faraday
• Feigenbaum constants — Mitchell Feigenbaum
• Hartree energy — Douglas Hartree
• Hubble's constant — Edwin Hubble
• Josephson constant — Brian David Josephson
• Loschmidt constant — Johann Josef Loschmidt
• Planck's constant — Max Planck
• Rydberg constant — Johannes Rydberg
• Sackur-Tetrode constant — Otto Sackur and Hugo Tetrode
• Stefan-Boltzmann constant — Jožef Stefan and Ludwig Boltzmann
• von Klitzing constant — Klaus von Klitzing
• Wien displacement law constant — Wilhelm Wien