Eponymity in Physics

A physicist wanting to make an impact on the field most often imagines his or her name attached to an Equation, or a Theory. Or even, if they really want to move mountains, a Law. I have no idea what mathematicians think about, but I would assume that they are hoping to come up with Theorems and Conjectures. Of course, not everyone is an Einstein or a Kepler, able to remake a subject and declare a Law. But if you carve out a niche for yourself, or invent a novel way of dealing with a certain topic, you're virtually assured of getting something. For an elegant discovery, you could have an Angle named after you, or a Number. Or in a more bizarre direction, a Sea or Paradox. de Sitter has an entire Universe! Me? If I could become the first person since Isaac Newton with an eponymous Bucket I would consider myself a success. There are so many strange things you could find named in your honor that I have compiled an extensive list of them.

First, some of the most common:

Equation
Formula
Law
Theorem
Theory
Hypothesis
[A Unit]	Newton, Gauss, Joule
[A Constant]	Planck, Boltzmann
Function	Riemann-Zeta, Bessel
Effect	Mössbauer, Stark, Bohr, Gunn-Peterson, etc.

And then of course, there are rarer terms. These trend very roughly from less to more obscure.

Field	Fermionic, Bosonic, Higgs
Matrix	Kobayashi, Cabibbo
Relation	Heisenberg, Tully-Fisher
Principle	Copernican, Pauli Exclusion
Model	Schwinger, Bohr
Method	Schrödinger
Postulate	Planck, Weyl
Approximation	Born
Space	Minkowski, Fock, Hilbert
Metric	Friedmann-Robertson-Walker, Minkowski
Distribution	Wigner, Bose-Einstein, Fermi-Dirac
___-on	Fermi, Bose
___-ian	Laplace, Hamilton, Riemann
Notation	Dirac
Potential	Coulomb, Yukawa
Action	Stueckelberg, Proca
Inequality	Minkowski, Bell
Limit	Chandrasekhar
Tensor	Riemann
Scalar	Ricci
Gauge	Newtonian
Diagram	Feynman
Radiation	Cherenkov, Hawking
Cycle	Carnot, Born
Interpretation	Bohm, Copenhagen
Paradox	Einstein-Podolski-Rosen, Olber, Fermi
Problem	Rabi, Fermi
Experiment	Milikan Oil Drop
Spectrum	Mössbauer
Conjecture	Witten
Interaction	Yakawa
Amplitude	Feynman
Operator	d'Alembert
Particle	Higgs, Planck
Neutrino	Majorana, Dirac
Motion	Brownian
Length	Jeans
Number	Avogadro, Chandrasekhar, Euler
Surface	Fermi
Condensate	Bose-Einstein
Radius	Schwartzschild, Bohr
Convention	Einstein Summation
Transform	Forier, Laplace
Series	Balmer, Lyman
Line	Lyman, Balmer
Rules	Slater
Scattering	Compton, Rayleigh, Thompson
Variable	Cepheid, RR Lyrae
Diffusion	Bohm
Diffraction	Bragg
Junction	Josephson
Expansion	Taylor
Manifold	Riemann
Topology	Picard
Mechanism	Higgs
Peak	Wein
Test	Tolman surface brightness
Repulsion	Coulomb
Epoch	Planck
Parameter	Hubble
[An Element]	Einstein, Fermi, Curie, Mendeleev, Lawrence, Nobel
Time/Mass/Energy/Temperature /Density/Power/Current/Length	Planck
Energy/Level/Hole/Velocity /Temperature	Fermi
Wavelength	de Broglie
Boson	Higgs
Profile	Hernquist
Criterion	Landau
Rigidity	Born
Cross-section	Thompson
Zone	Brillouin, (also see, List of Zones)
State	Hartle-Hawking
Angle	Weinberg
Universe	de Sitter, Lemaître
Sea	Dirac, Fermi
Magneton	Bohr
Splitting	Zeeman
Forest	Lyman-alpha
Blob	Lyman-alpha
Swindle	Jeans
Trough	Gunn-Peterson
Window	Gamow
Cage	Faraday
Engine	Carnot
Bucket	Newton
Tuning Fork	Hubble
Golden Rule	Fermi
Pancake	Zel'dovich
Brain	Boltzmann
Demon	Maxwell
Cat	Schrödinger

If anyone else is able to repeat that last one, I will be highly impressed. I would also like to point out that the Higgs boson may be the only phenomenon or concept that has two namesakes, since the term boson originally comes from Satyendra Bose! If you can think of anything else let me know and I'll add it.