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• Avogadro's number – Amedeo Avogadro
• Bohr magneton – Niels Bohr
• Bohr radius – Niels Bohr
• Boltzmann constant – Ludwig Boltzmann
• Chandrasekhar limit – Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
• Dirac's constant – Paul DiracPaul Adrien Maurice Dirac ( August 8 1902 October 20 1984) was a British theoretical physicist and a founder of the field of quantum physics. Biography Paul Dirac was born in the English city of Bristol. His father, Charles Dirac, was an immigrant from th
• Euler's constantMay refer either to either of two mathematical constants: Euler-Mascheroni constant e the base of natural logarithms. – Leonhard EulerLeonhard Euler ( April 15, 1707 September 18, 1783) (pronounced "oiler") was a Swiss mathematician and physicist. He is considered (together with Gauss) to be one of the two greatest mathematicians. Leonhard Euler was the first to use the term " function"
• Faraday constantIn physics and chemistry, the Faraday constant is the amount of electric charge of one mole of electrons. It has the symbol F, and is given by :, where N is Avogadro's number (approximately 6. 02 x 1023) and q is the charge on an electron. The value of F – Michael FaradayMichael Faraday ( September 22, 1791 August 25, 1867) was a British scientist (a physicist and chemist) who contributed to the fields of electromagnetism and electrochemistry and invented the Bunsen burner. Michael Faraday was one of the great scientists
• Hartree energyThe Hartree energy (symbol E) is a physical constant used as atomic unit of energy, named after physicist Douglas Hartree. It has a value of twice the absolute value of binding energy of the electron in the ground state of the hydrogen atom W or the ioniz – Douglas Hartree
• Hubble's constant – Edwin HubbleEdwin Powell Hubble ( November 20, 1889 September 28, 1953) was a noted American astronomer, generally credited for discovering 1 and proving redshift and that the universe is expanding. Hubble was born to an insurance executive in Marshfield, Missouri an
• Planck's constant – Max Planck
• Rydberg constant – Johannes Rydberg
• Stefan-Boltzmann constant – Jožef Stefan and Ludwig Boltzmann