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Huygens

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Huy·gens  (hgnz, hoigns), Christiaan 1629-1695.
Dutch physicist and astronomer who discovered Saturn's rings (1655), pioneered the use of pendulums in clocks (1657), and formulated Huygens' principle.
Huygens [ˈhaɪgənz (Dutch) ˈhœixəns]
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(Biographies / Huygens, Christiaan (1629-1695) M, Dutch, SCIENCE: physicist) Christiaan (ˈkristiːˌaːn). 1629-95, Dutch physicist: first formulated the wave theory of light
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Noun1.Huygens - Dutch physicist who first formulated the wave theory of light (1629-1695)
Christiaan Huygens, Christian Huygens
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