List of scientists whose names are used in physical constants
Introduction 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 scientistLife NationalityName of the constantIsaac Newton1643–1727BritishNewtonian constant of gravitationLeonhard Euler1707–1783SwissEuler's numberCharles-Augustin de Coulomb1736–1806FrenchCoulomb constantAmedeo Avogadro1776–1856ItalianAvogadro constantMichael Faraday					1791–1867BritishFaraday constantJohann Josef Loschmidt1821–1895AustrianLoschmidt constantJohann Jakob Balmer1825–1898SwissBalmer's constantJosef Stefan1835–1893Slovene/AustrianStefan's constantLudwig Boltzmann1844–1906AustrianBoltzmann constantHenri Victor Regnault1810-1878FrenchRegnault constantJohannes Rydberg1854–1919SwedishRydberg constantJ. J. Thomson1856–1940BritishThomson cross section						Erwin Madelung1881–1972GermanMadelung constantMax Planck1858–1947GermanPlanck constantWilhelm Wien1864–1928GermanWien's constantArnold Sommerfeld1868-1951GermanSommerfeld constantOwen Willans Richardson1879–1959BritishRichardson constantOtto Sackur1880–1914GermanSackur–Tetrode constantNiels Bohr1885–1962DanishBohr magneton, Bohr radiusLudvig Lorenz1829–1891DanishLorenz numberEdwin Hubble1889–1953AmericanHubble constantHugo Tetrode 1895–1931DutchSackur–Tetrode constantDouglas Hartree1897–1958BritishHartree energy	Enrico Fermi1901–1954Italian/AmericanFermi coupling constantRoger Apéry 1916–1994Greek/FrenchApéry's constant Brian Josephson1940BritishJosephson constantKlaus von Klitzing1943Germanvon Klitzing constantÉmile Verdet1824-1866FrenchVerdet constant
See also *List of scientists whose names are used as units*List of chemical elements named after people*Unit of measurement
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