List of scientists whose names are used in physical constants Name of the scientist [1] Life Nationality Name of the constant Isaac Newton 1643–1727 British Newtons constant Leonhard Euler 1707–1783 Swiss Eulers number Charles-Augustin de Coulomb 1736–1806 French Coulombs constant Amedeo Avogadro 1776–1856 Italian Avogadro constant Michael Faraday 1791–1867 British Faraday constant Johann Josef Loschmidt 1821–1895 Austrian Loschmidt constant Johann Jakob Balmer 1825–1898 Swiss Balmers constant Joseph Stefan 1835–1893 Slovene - Austrian Stefans constant[2] Ludwig Boltzmann 1844–1906 Austrian Boltzmann constant Johannes Robert Rydberg 1854–1919 Swedish Rydberg constant Joseph John Thomson 1856–1940 British Thomson cross section Max Planck 1858–1947 German Planck constant Wilhelm Wien 1864–1928 German Wiens constant Owen Willans Richardson 1879–1959 British Richardson constant Otto Sackur 1880–1914 German Sackur-Tetrode constant Niels Bohr 1885–1962 Danish Bohr magneton, Bohr radius Edwin Hubble 1889–1953 American Hubble constant[3] Hugo Tetrode 1895–1931 Dutch Sackur-Tetrode constant Douglas Hartree 1897–1958 British Hartree energy Enrico Fermi 1901–1954 Italian - American Fermi coupling constant Roger Apéry 1916–1994 Greek - French Apérys constant Brian David Josephson 1940 British Josephson constant Klaus von Klitzing 1943 German von Klitzing constant
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