Christiaan Huygens
Christiaan Huygens (pronounced in English (IPA): {{IPA|}}; in Dutch: {{IPA|}}) (April 14, 1629–July 8, 1695), was a Dutch mathematician and physicist; born in The Hague as the son of Constantijn Huygens. He studied law at the University of Leiden and the College of Orange in Breda before turning to science. Historians commonly associate Huygens with the scientific revolution.
Named after Huygens
- The Huygens probe: The lander for the Saturnian moon Titan, part of the Cassini-Huygens Mission to Saturn
- Asteroid 2801 Huygens
- A crater on Mars
- A mountain on the Moon
- Huygens Software, a microscope image processing package.
- Achromatic eyepiece design named about him
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