Huygens (also Huijgens, Huigens, Huijgen/Huygen, or Huigen) is a Dutch patronymic surname, meaning "son of Hugo". Most references to "Huygens" are to the polymath Christiaan Huygens. Notable people with the surname include:
Jan Huygen (1563–1611), Dutch voyager and historian
Constantijn Huygens (1596–1687), Dutch poet, diplomat, scholar and composer
Constantijn Huygens, Jr. (1628–1697), Dutch statesman, soldier, and telescope maker, son of Constantijn Huygens
Christiaan Huygens (1629–1695), Dutch mathematician, physicist and astronomer, son of Constantijn Huygens
Lodewijck Huygens (1631–1699), Dutch diplomat, the third son of Constantijn Huygens
Cornélie Huygens (1848–1902), Dutch writer, social democrat and feminist
runner Wil Huygen (1922–2009), Dutch children's and fantasy writer, e.g. of Gnomes Constantijn Huygens Prize, Dutch literary award Huygens Institute for...
"Christiaan Huygens", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews Huygens and music theory Huygens–Fokker Foundation —on Huygens's 31 equal...
father of the scientist Christiaan Huygens. Constantijn Huygens was born in The Hague, the second son of Christiaan Huygens (senior), secretary of the Council...
for object analysis and colocalization. Huygens software is named after the Dutch physicist Christiaan Huygens who is perhaps best known for his argument...
parallel axis theorem, also known as Huygens–Steiner theorem, or just as Steiner's theorem, named after Christiaan Huygens and Jakob Steiner, can be used to...
back by Voyager 2, the Huygens Gap is located at the inner edge of the Cassini Division. It contains the dense, eccentric Huygens Ringlet in the middle...
Royal Society in 1660, advocated by Christiaan Huygens and Ole Rømer, basing it on Mersenne's work, and Huygens in Horologium Oscillatorium proposed a "horary...
physician Christiaan Huygens. List of tallest mountains in the Solar System Astrogeology The Moon's Highs and Lows "Mons Huygens". Gazetteer of Planetary...
correspondent and friend of Christiaan Huygens and may thus have been a very early adapter of the magic lantern technique that Huygens developed around this period...
Paris, where he worked under the Curator of Experiments, Christiaan Huygens. Huygens set Papin to the task of carrying out a research effort on air and...
Willibrord Joseph Huygen (23 June 1922 – 14 January 2009) was a Dutch book author. He is best known for the picture books on gnomes, illustrated by Rien...
not until Huygens used greater telescopic magnification that this notion was refuted, and the rings were truly seen for the first time. Huygens also discovered...
disputed both at the time and ever since between Robert Hooke and Christiaan Huygens. Prior to this, the only force limiting the back and forth motion of the...
The Constantijn Huygens Prize (Dutch: Constantijn Huygens-prijs) is a Dutch literary award. Since 1947, it has been awarded each year for an author's...
Huygens principle of double refraction, named after Dutch physicist Christiaan Huygens, explains the phenomenon of double refraction observed in uniaxial...
In algebraic geometry, the lemniscate of Gerono, or lemniscate of Huygens, or figure-eight curve, is a plane algebraic curve of degree four and genus...
The Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands was formed on January 1, 2011, through a merger of the Institute of Dutch History (Dutch: Instituut...
Christiaan Huygens SMN ordered two much bigger ocean liners at NSM, Johan van Oldenbarnevelt and Marnix van Sint Aldegonde. Christiaan Huygens was registered...
The Christiaan Huygens Medal, named after the mathematician and natural philosopher Christiaan Huygens, is a prize awarded by the European Geosciences...
Dutch mathematician, astronomer and physicist Christiaan Huygens and his brother Constantijn Huygens, Jr., though it is not clear if they actually invented...
Tidal locking http://phys.org/news/2016-03-huygens-pendulum-synchronization.html - Researchers prove Huygens was right about pendulum synchronization Tiebout...
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