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Willebrord Snellius

1580 - 1626

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Willebrord Snellius (born Willebrord Snel van Royen) (13 June 1580 – 30 October 1626) was a Dutch astronomer and mathematician, commonly known as Snell. His name is usually associated with the law of refraction of light known as Snell's law. The lunar crater Snellius is named after Willebrord Snellius. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Willebrord Snellius has received more than 229,132 page views. His biography is available in 43 different languages on Wikipedia. Willebrord Snellius is the 103rd most popular mathematician (down from 70th in 2019), the 85th most popular biography from Netherlands (down from 46th in 2019) and the most popular Dutch Mathematician.

Willebrord Snellius is most famous for his law of refraction, which is the law that governs the relationship between the angle of incidence and the angle of refraction.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Willebrord Snellius ranks 103 out of 1,004. Before him are Thābit ibn Qurra, Pierre Louis Maupertuis, Isaac Barrow, Grigori Perelman, Joan Clarke, and Christian Goldbach. After him are Thomas Harriot, Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi, Charles Hermite, Paul Ehrenfest, John Wallis, and Anthemius of Tralles.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1580, Willebrord Snellius ranks 3. Before him are Jan Baptist van Helmont, and Josaphat Kuntsevych. After him are John Smith, Köprülü Mehmed Pasha, Ernst von Mansfeld, Charles I Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua, Gabriel Bethlen, Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, Cristóvão Ferreira, Augusta of Denmark, and Andrea Falconieri. Among people deceased in 1626, Willebrord Snellius ranks 3. Before him are Francis Bacon, and Nurhaci. After him are John Dowland, Ernst von Mansfeld, William V, Duke of Bavaria, Adriaen de Vries, Christian the Younger of Brunswick, Isabella of Savoy, Wakisaka Yasuharu, Marino Ghetaldi, and Louis V, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Willebrord Snellius ranks 85 out of 1,646. Before him are Petrus Christus (1410), Tobias Asser (1838), Cornelius Jansen (1585), Bernard Mandeville (1670), Edsger W. Dijkstra (1930), and Saskia van Uylenburgh (1612). After him are Jan Oort (1900), Lucas van Leyden (1494), Cornelis Drebbel (1572), Gerard Kuiper (1905), Gerard van Honthorst (1592), and Martinus J. G. Veltman (1931).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Netherlands

Among mathematicians born in Netherlands, Willebrord Snellius ranks 1. After him are Willem de Sitter (1872), L. E. J. Brouwer (1881), Isaac Beeckman (1588), Bartel Leendert van der Waerden (1903), Gemma Frisius (1508), Thomas Joannes Stieltjes (1856), Hendrik C. van de Hulst (1918), Willem 's Gravesande (1688), Auguste Kerckhoffs (1835), Arend Heyting (1898), and Diederik Korteweg (1848).

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