List of waves named after people

Short description: Phenomena analysed as waves

This is a list of waves named after people (eponymous waves).

Wave | Field | Person(s) named after

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Alfvén wave | Magnetohydrodynamics | Hannes Alfvén
Bloch wave | Solid state physics, condensed matter physics | Felix Bloch
Boriswave | Immigration | Boris Johnson
de Broglie wave | Quantum physics | Louis de Broglie
Elliott wave | Finance | Ralph Nelson Elliott
Faraday wave | Water waves | Michael Faraday
Kelvin wave | Oceanography, atmospheric dynamics | Lord Kelvin
Lamb wave | Acoustics, elastic waves | Horace Lamb
Mexican wave | Audience waves | Mexicans
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

## See also

* Eponym
* List of eponymous laws
* Waves
* Scientific phenomena named after people

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