Physics: Effects Named After People

For each effect described, enter the name of a person commonly credited with its discovery. Each name should be in its Anglicized form. For an effect with multiple names, e.g., the Smith-Jones Effect, any of the names will work.

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Description of Effect	An Existing Application Hint	First Letter(s) Hint	Name
a wave's frequency depends on the relative motion of its source and its observer	redshift	D	Doppler
an observer in a rotating frame of reference must include fictitious forces when applying Newton's laws	climate	C	Coriolis
a spacecraft uses fuel most efficiently if it applies thrust at periapsis	astronautics	O	Oberth
increasing the speed of an incompressible fluid decreases its pressure and/or its height	aeronautics	B	Bernoulli
a spinning object moving in a fluid is deflected perpendicularly to its motion	sports	M	Magnus
a magnetic field may rotate the linear polarization of light traveling in a material	sensors	F	Faraday
a temperature gradient may cause an electromotive force, and vice versa	heat pump	P-S	Peltier-Seebeck
a magnetic field perpendicular to a temperature gradient causes an electromotive force perpendicular to the gradient		N	Nernst
a magnetic field perpendicular to a current in an electrical conductor causes an electromotive force perpendicular to the current	sensors	H	Hall
a superconductor expels any magnetic field	levitation	M-O	Meissner-Ochsenfeld
a charged particle moving faster than the phase velocity of light in a dielectric material causes light to be emitted	astrophysics	V-C	Vavilov-Cherenkov
atoms and molecules may scatter light inelastically	spectroscopy	R	Raman
collision with an electron reduces a photon's energy	backscatter x-ray	C	Compton
an atomic nucleus bound in a solid may emit or absorb a photon, with no nuclear recoil	spectroscopy	M	Mossbauer
a static magnetic field splits atomic spectral lines	laser cooling	Z	Zeeman
an electric field splits and shifts atomic spectral lines	voltage-sensitive dye	S	Stark
an atom transitioning to a lower energy electron configuration may emit an electron	spectroscopy	A-M	Auger-Meitner
electric current may flow through a thin insulator separating superconductors	qubits	J	Josephson
a vector potential affects a charged particle in a region with negligible electric and magnetic fields	philosophy	A-B	Aharanov-Bohm
a bound state of 3 identical bosons can exist even if no pair can form a bound state		E	Efimov

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