Christiaan Huygens
1629 – 1695 Dutch physicist, astronomer, mathematician
The physicist who proposed the wave theory of light and built the pendulum clock.
- Religion
- Raised Calvinist Protestant; his outlook was rationalist and scientific.
- Affiliations
- Founding member of the French Academy of Sciences. No secret society.
Huygens invented the pendulum clock, discovered Saturn's rings and its moon Titan, and advanced the wave theory of light. His work on mechanics and probability was among the finest of the age. He bridged the era of Galileo and that of Newton.
In the timeline
- 1656 The pendulum clock mentioned