Scientific phenomena named after people

A phenomenon (plural: phenomena) is an observable event, especially something special (literally something that can be seen from the Greek word phainomenon = observable). Phenomenon - Kant's use of phenomenon. Phenomenon has a specialized meaning in the philosophy of Immanuel Kant who contrasted the term 'Phenomenon' with 'Noumenon'. Phenomena constitute the world as we experience it, as opposed to the world as it exists independently of our experiences (thing-in- ...

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Please remove this notice after the article has been expanded. Details are on this talk page or at Wikipedia:Requests for expansion. A physical phenomenon is a phenomenon that is describable by physics and involved with some form of matter, energy, or spacetime. Physical phenomena are usually regarded as, at least in theory, subjects of observation - Niels Bohr, one of the fathers of quantum mechanics, is quoted with saying the "no pheno ...

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Brian David Josephson (born Cardiff, Wales, UK, January 4, 1940) is a British physicist whose discovery of the Josephson effect as a 22-year-old graduate student won him the 1973 Nobel Prize for Physics, which he shared with Leo Esaki and Ivar Giaever. He is currently a professor at the University of Cambridge where he is the head of the mind-matter unification project in the Theory of Condensed Ma ...

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Hall was born in Great Falls (North Gorham), Maine, US. Hall received his education at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. The Hall effect was discovered by Hall in 1879, while working on his doctoral thesis (Physics). Hall's experiments consisted of exposing thin gold leaf (and, later, using various other materials) on a glass plate and tapping off the gold leaf at points down its length. The effect is a potential difference (Hall voltage) on opposite sides of a thin sheet of conducting or semiconducting material (the Hall element) ...

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List of inventions named after people - A to G. Archimedes' screw – Archimedes Armstrong breech-loading gun – William George Armstrong Bakelite – Leo Baekeland Bessemer converter – Henry Bessemer Biro, (ballpoint pen) – Laszlo Biro Bowie knife – Jim Bowie Braille – Louis Braille Browning firearms, including the Browning Automatic Rifle – John Browning Bunsen burner – Robert Bunsen Colt revolver – Samuel Colt ...

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List of inventions named after people, List of inventions named after people - The list, List of inventions named after people - A to G, List of inventions named after people - H to Q, List of inventions named after people - R to Z

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The Faraday effect is imposed on light over the course of its propagation from its origin to the Earth, through the interstellar medium. Here, the effect is caused by free electrons and can be characterized as a difference in the refractive index seen by the two circularly polarized propagation modes. Hence, in contrast to the Faraday effect in solids or liquids, interstellar Faraday rotation has a s ...

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Faraday effect, Faraday effect - Faraday rotation in the interstellar medium

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Phenomenon has a specialized meaning in the philosophy of Immanuel Kant who contrasted the term 'Phenomenon' with 'Noumenon'. Phenomena constitute the world as we experience it, as opposed to the world as it exists independently of our experiences (thing-in-themselves, 'das Ding an sich'). Humans cannot, according to Kant, know things-in-themselves, only things as we experience them. Thus philosophy should concern itself with understanding the process of experience itself. The concept of 'Phenomena' led to a tradition of philosophy known as Phenomenology. Leading figures in this tradition ...

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In general, apart from its specialized use as a term in philosophy, phenomenon stands for any observable event. Phenomena make up the raw data of science. It was an attempt to explain phenomena like; earthquakes, lightening, rain, fire, sunrise, thunderstorm, rusting that lead to the development of modern science. Phenomena are often exploited by technology. It is possible to list the phenomena which are relevant to almost any field of endeavor, for example, in the case of optics and light ...

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As noted by Professor Peter Turchin (Does population ecology have general laws?, 2001 and Complex Population Dynamics, 2003), this model is often referred to as The Exponential Law and is widely regarded in the field of population ecology as the first principle of population dynamics, with Malthus as the founder. At best, it can be described as an approximate physical law as it is generally acknowledged that nothing can grow at a constant rate indefinitely (Cassell's Laws Of Nature, Professor James Trefil, ...

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Malthusian growth model, Malthusian growth model - Exponential law, Malthusian growth model - Malthusian law, Malthusian growth model - Rule of 70, Malthusian growth model - Logistic growth model

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Lists of etymologies - Toponyms or Names derived from places. List of toponyms Chemical elements named after places Maghreb toponymy ...

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