List of scientific constants named after people
This is a list of physical and mathematical constants named after people.
Eponymous constants and their influence on scientific citations have been discussed in the literature.
- Apéry's constant – Roger Apéry
- Archimedes' constant – Archimedes
- Avogadro constant – Amedeo Avogadro
- Balmer's constant – Johann Jakob Balmer
- Belphegor's prime – Belphegor
- Bohr magneton – Niels Bohr
- Bohr radius – Niels Bohr
- Boltzmann constant – Ludwig Boltzmann
- Brun's constant – Viggo Brun
- Cabibbo angle – Nicola Cabibbo
- Chaitin's constant – Gregory Chaitin
- Champernowne constant – D. G. Champernowne
- Chandrasekhar limit – Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
- Copeland–Erdős constant – Paul Erdős and Peter Borwein
- Eddington number – Arthur Stanley Eddington
- Dunbar's number – Robin Dunbar
- Embree–Trefethen constant
- Erdős–Borwein constant
- Euler–Mascheroni constant – Leonhard Euler and Lorenzo Mascheroni
- Euler's number – Leonhard Euler
- Faraday constant – Michael Faraday
- Feigenbaum constants – Mitchell Feigenbaum
- Fermi coupling constant – Enrico Fermi
- Gauss's constant – Carl Friedrich Gauss
- Graham's number – Ronald Graham
- Hartree energy – Douglas Hartree
- Hubble constant – Edwin Hubble
- Josephson constant – Brian David Josephson
- Kaprekar's constant – D. R. Kaprekar
- Kerr constant – John Kerr
- Khinchin's constant – Aleksandr Khinchin
- Landau–Ramanujan constant – Edmund Landau and Srinivasa Ramanujan
- Legendre's constant – Adrien-Marie Legendre
- Loschmidt constant – Johann Josef Loschmidt
- Ludolphsche Zahl – Ludolph van Ceulen
- Mean of Phidias – Phidias
- Meissel–Mertens constant
- Moser's number
- Newtonian constant of gravitation – Sir Isaac Newton
- Planck constant – Max Planck
- Ramanujan–Soldner constant – Srinivasa Ramanujan and Johann Georg von Soldner
- Richardson constant – Owen Willans Richardson
- Rayo's number – Agustin Rayo
- Rydberg constant – Johannes Rydberg
- Sommerfeld constant – Arnold Sommerfeld
- Sagan's number – Carl Sagan
- Sackur–Tetrode constant – Otto Sackur and Hugo Tetrode
- Sierpiński's constant – Wacław Sierpiński
- Skewes' number – Stanley Skewes
- Stefan–Boltzmann constant – Jožef Stefan and Ludwig Boltzmann
- Theodorus' constant – Theodorus of Cyrene
- Tupper's number – Jeff Tupper
- Viswanath's constant – Divakar Viswanath
- von Klitzing constant – Klaus von Klitzing
- Wien displacement law constant – Wilhelm Wien