Nationality Dutch Role Mathematician Name Christiaan Huijgens | Event(s) Marathon Sport Long-distance running | |
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Born 25 January 1897 ( 1897-01-25 ) Utrecht, Netherlands Died July 8, 1695, The Hague, Netherlands Influenced Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Isaac Newton Discovered Orion Nebula, Rings of Saturn, Titan Influenced by Galileo Galilei, Rene Descartes Books Cosmotheoros, Treatise on Light, Horologium oscillatorium sive de m, The celestial worlds di, The Wave Theory of Light ‑ Me Similar People Isaac Newton, Galileo Galilei, Constantijn Huygens, Rene Descartes, Augustin‑Jean Fresnel | ||
Christiaan Huijgens (25 January 1897 – 11 January 1963) was a Dutch long-distance runner. He competed in the marathon at the 1920 Summer Olympics.
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