Scientific laws named after people

Imagine you hear about someone who did something really cool, like finding a way to explain how something in the world works. We call that person a scientist. Sometimes, these scientists come up with such amazing ideas that their thoughts or explanations become famous and important enough that we name them after the scientist. We call them ‘scientific laws named after people.’

These laws are like rules that help us better understand how things work in the world. We use laws every day, like how we’re not allowed to cross the road without looking both ways, or how we can’t touch the stove when it’s hot, and we follow those rules to keep ourselves safe. The scientific laws named after people are the same, just that they explain how different things work in nature, such as gravity or motion.

For instance, Sir Isaac Newton was a scientist long ago. He watched an apple fall from a tree, and he began to think about why gravity makes it fall. He later wrote down his thoughts and explained how it works with a general statement or a rule. That rule is now called ‘Newton's law of gravitation.’ In a similar way, there’s Kepler's laws of planetary motion, which tells us how planets move around the sun, or Ohm's law which explains the relationship between electricity, voltage, and resistance.

In summary, scientific laws named after people are like important rules that explain how things in nature work. Scientists who came up with these rules discovered something new or helped us understand something we didn’t know before, and that's why we call them by their name.