This is a list of waves named after people (eponymous waves).
Wave | Field | Person(s) named after |
---|---|---|
Alfvén wave | Magnetohydrodynamics | Hannes Alfvén |
Bloch wave | Solid state physics, condensed matter physics | Felix Bloch |
de Broglie wave | Quantum physics | Louis de Broglie |
Elliott wave | Finance | Ralph Nelson Elliott |
Faraday wave | Water waves | Michael Faraday |
Gerstner wave [1] | Water waves, oceanography | František Josef Gerstner |
Kelvin wave | Oceanography, atmospheric dynamics | Lord Kelvin |
Lamb wave | Acoustics, elastic waves | Horace Lamb |
Langmuir wave | Plasma physics | Irving Langmuir |
Love wave | Elastodynamics, surface waves | Augustus Edward Hough Love |
Mach wave | Fluid dynamics | Ernst Mach |
Rayleigh wave or Rayleigh–Lamb wave | Surface acoustic waves, seismology | Lord Rayleigh and Horace Lamb |
Rossby wave | Meteorology, oceanography | Carl-Gustaf Rossby |
Stokes wave | Surface gravity waves, water waves | George Gabriel Stokes |
Tollmien–Schlichting wave | Stability of laminar flows | Walter Tollmien and Hermann Schlichting |
In Norse mythology, Heimdall is a god. He is the son of Odin and nine mothers. Heimdall keeps watch for invaders and the onset of Ragnarök from his dwelling Himinbjörg, where the burning rainbow bridge Bifröst meets the sky. He is attested as possessing foreknowledge and keen senses, particularly eyesight and hearing. The god and his possessions are described in enigmatic manners. For example, Heimdall is emerald-toothed, "the head is called his sword," and he is "the whitest of the gods."
A tsunami is a series of waves in a water body caused by the displacement of a large volume of water, generally in an ocean or a large lake. Earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and other underwater explosions above or below water all have the potential to generate a tsunami. Unlike normal ocean waves, which are generated by wind, or tides, which are in turn generated by the gravitational pull of the Moon and the Sun, a tsunami is generated by the displacement of water from a large event.
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Medical eponyms are terms used in medicine which are named after people. In 1975, the Canadian National Institutes of Health held a conference that discussed the naming of diseases and conditions. This was reported in The Lancet where the conclusion was summarized as: "The possessive use of an eponym should be discontinued, since the author neither had nor owned the disorder." New discoveries are often attached to the people who made the discovery because of the nature of the history of medicine.
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