In 1979, Hounsfield won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his role in the development of computer-assisted ...

Kneijnsberg honors the Dutch scientist and inventor Christiaan Huygens with a brilliant twist on an automatic Day-Date ...

The principle of wave-particle duality is crucial in quantum physics, highlighting the dual nature of light and matter and ...

A.S.Ganesh A discovery of ‘Titan’ic proportions Christiaan Huygens, a Dutch astronomer, inventor, physicist and mathematician, discovered Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, on March 25, 1655.

Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens, inspired by the earlier works of Galileo, built the most powerful telescope of his day in 1655. His enormous apparatus (for the time) was built to make ...

A glass sphere refracting a captivating blue prism. Photo by Charles Baden via Envato. After almost 44 years of academic service, the country’s first ever Optica Fellow is just getting started. Light ...

When the probe — named Huygens, for the 17th century Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens who discovered that world — transmitted its first pictures, the painted moonscape clashed with the real ...

From left to right: The ‘Q’ clock, a quarter-repeating table clock made by Tompion for Queen Mary; Christiaan Huygens's weight-driven pendulum, invented on Christmas Day, 1656; Longcase clock, 1690–94 ...

Christiaan Huygens built excellent lenses in the 17th century, but his telescopes lacked sharpness in comparison with what was possible at that time. In a recent study, Dr. Alex Pietrow ...

Cassini transported Huygens on their journey from Earth to Saturn. Cassini’s mission was to investigate Saturn and its system, while Huygens’ was to explore Titan, the planet’s largest moon.

The research details how the MEMS Huygens clock enhances short-time stability, with the Allan deviation – a measure of the clock’s accuracy over time – improving by a factor of 3.73 from 19. ...