Huygens

American  

[hahy-guhnz, hoi-, hoi-gens] / ˈhaɪ gənz, ˈhɔɪ-, ˈhɔɪ gɛns /

Or Huyghens

noun

1. Christian 1629–95, Dutch mathematician, physicist, and astronomer.

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Huygens British  

/ ˈhœixəns, ˈhaɪɡənz /

noun

1. Christiaan (ˈkristiːˌaːn). 1629–95, Dutch physicist: first formulated the wave theory of light

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Huygens Scientific  

/ hī′gənz,hoi′gĕns /

1. Dutch physicist and astronomer who in 1655 discovered Saturn's rings and its fourth satellite, using a telescope he constructed with his brother. In 1657 he built the first pendulum clock. Huygens also proposed that light consists of transverse waves that vibrate up and down perpendicular to the direction in which the light travels. This theory, which explained some properties of light better than Newton's theory, was made public in 1690.

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Example Sentences

In the 17th century, astronomers Christiaan Huygens and Giovanni Cassini pointed some of the earliest telescopes at Saturn and made a surprising discovery.

From Science Daily

In the 17th century, Christiaan Huygens and Giovanni Cassini focused their telescopes on Saturn and realized its bright bands were not solid features.

From Science Daily

The Huygens Institute, which helped digitise the archive, says this is a major barrier for people wishing to research the Netherlands' occupation, which lasted from its invasion in 1940 to 1945.

From BBC

First described by Christiaan Huygens in the 17th century, synchronisation was famously illustrated by the aligned swinging of his pendulum clocks.

From Science Daily

The question lingered for two centuries until James Clerk Maxwell’s profound and leucippitous discovery that light favors Huygens’s wave theory.

From Scientific American