Eponyms: F
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| Fahrenheit | Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit (1686-1736), German scientist |
| Falkland Islands | Lucius Cary, 2nd Viscount Falkland (c.1610-43), English secretary of state |
| Fallopian tube | Gabriel Fallopius (1523-62), Italian anatomist |
| Fanconi’s Syndrome | Guido Fanconi (1892-1979), Swiss paediatrician |
| farad, faraday | Michael Faraday (1791-1867), British chemist and physicist |
| faun; fauna | Faunus, Roman god of pastures and forests |
| fermi, fermium | Enrico Fermi (1901-54), Italian-born American physicist |
| Ferris wheel | George Washington Gale Ferris (1859-96), American engineer |
| Fibonacci Numbers | Leonardo Pisano Fibonacci (1170-1250), Italian mathematician |
| filbert | Saint Philibert (d.684), Frankish abbot whose feast day (22 Aug) marks the ripening season of the nuts |
| flora | Flora, Roman goddess of flowers, youth and spring |
| Fokker airplane | Anthony Herman Gerard Fokker (1890-1939), Dutch-born aircraft designer and manufacturer |
| Forel scale | François-Alphonse Forel (1841-1912), Swiss physiologist and anatomist |
| forsythia | William Forsyth (1737-1804), British botanist |
| Fosbury Flop | Dick Fosbury (b1947), American athlete |
| frangipani | Marquis Frangipani, 16th century Italian nobleman |
| Fraunhofer lines | Joseph von Fraunhofer (1787-1826), German physicist and optician |
| freesia | Friedrich Heinrich Theodor Freese (d.1876), German physician |
| fresnel | Augustin Jean Fresnel (1788-1827), French physicist |
| Freudian slip | Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), Austrian psychiatrist |
| Friday | Frig (or Frigga), Norse goddess of married love |
| fuchsia | Leonard Fuchs (1501-66), German botanist and physician |
| Fujita scale | Tetsuya Theodore Fujita (1920-98), American meteorologist |