List of waves named after people
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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 |