List: Bessel as namesake
The astronomer, mathematician, geodesist and physicist Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel (1784–1846) is named after the following scientific names:
- Bessel differential equation (mathematics)
- Bessel elements (astronomy: eclipses and star coverings)
- Bessel ellipsoid (geodesy: earth dimensions)
- Bessel epoch (astronomy: calculation of time)
- Bessel filter (physics: electrical engineering)
- Bessel functions (mathematics)
- Bessel interpolation formula (mathematics: numerics)
- Bessel year (astronomy: calculation of time)
- Bessel correction (mathematics: statistics)
- Bessel process (mathematics: stochastics)
- Bessel points (physics: mechanics)
- Bessel solar year (astronomy: calculation of time)
- Bessel beam (physics: wave optics)
- Bessel system (mathematics)
- Bessel day numbers (astronomy: coordinate calculation)
- Bessel's inequality (mathematics)
- Bessel method (physics: optics)