1580 - 1626
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 216,504 page views. His biography is available in 43 different languages on Wikipedia. Willebrord Snellius is the 70th most popular mathematician (down from 61st in 2019), the 46th most popular biography from Netherlands (down from 38th 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, Willebrord Snellius ranks 70 out of 823. Before him are Alfred North Whitehead, Ludolph van Ceulen, Hermann Minkowski, Jacob Bernoulli, Benoit Mandelbrot, and Bhāskara II. After him are Zhang Heng, Katherine Johnson, Urbain Le Verrier, Giuseppe Peano, Andrey Kolmogorov, and Richard Dedekind.
1861 - 1947
HPI: 68.32
Rank: 64
1540 - 1610
HPI: 68.20
Rank: 65
1864 - 1909
HPI: 68.15
Rank: 66
1654 - 1705
HPI: 67.90
Rank: 67
1924 - 2010
HPI: 67.78
Rank: 68
1114 - 1185
HPI: 67.76
Rank: 69
1580 - 1626
HPI: 67.69
Rank: 70
78 - 139
HPI: 67.60
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1918 - 2020
HPI: 67.59
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1811 - 1877
HPI: 67.52
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1858 - 1932
HPI: 67.42
Rank: 74
1903 - 1987
HPI: 67.41
Rank: 75
1831 - 1916
HPI: 67.33
Rank: 76
Among people born in 1580, Willebrord Snellius ranks 2. Before him is Jan Baptist van Helmont. After him are Gabriel Bethlen, John Smith, Josaphat Kuntsevych, Köprülü Mehmed Pasha, Charles I Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua, Ernst von Mansfeld, Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, Andrea Falconieri, Augusta of Denmark, and Pierre Vernier. Among people deceased in 1626, Willebrord Snellius ranks 3. Before him are Francis Bacon and Nurhaci. After him are John Dowland, William V, Duke of Bavaria, Ernst von Mansfeld, Isabella of Savoy, Adriaen de Vries, Louis V, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt, Christian the Younger of Brunswick, Ferdinando Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua, and Pietro Cataldi.
1580 - 1644
HPI: 68.24
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1580 - 1626
HPI: 67.69
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1580 - 1629
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1580 - 1631
HPI: 63.88
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1580 - 1623
HPI: 63.66
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1580 - 1661
HPI: 63.04
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1580 - 1637
HPI: 61.37
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1580 - 1626
HPI: 59.92
Rank: 8
1580 - 1637
HPI: 59.80
Rank: 9
1580 - 1656
HPI: 53.96
Rank: 10
1580 - 1639
HPI: 53.68
Rank: 11
1580 - 1637
HPI: 53.62
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1561 - 1626
HPI: 87.67
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1559 - 1626
HPI: 72.10
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1580 - 1626
HPI: 67.69
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1563 - 1626
HPI: 64.37
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1548 - 1626
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1580 - 1626
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1591 - 1626
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1556 - 1626
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1577 - 1626
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1599 - 1626
HPI: 55.28
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1587 - 1626
HPI: 54.80
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1552 - 1626
HPI: 54.27
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Among people born in Netherlands, Willebrord Snellius ranks 46 out of 1,427. Before him are Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach (1870), Jan van Riebeeck (1619), Marco van Basten (1964), Thomas Bernhard (1931), André Rieu (1949), and Max Euwe (1901). After him are Johan de Witt (1625), Theo van Doesburg (1883), Jacob van Ruisdael (1628), Frank Rijkaard (1962), Christiaan Eijkman (1858), and Han van Meegeren (1889).
1870 - 1950
HPI: 67.96
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1619 - 1677
HPI: 67.81
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1964 - Present
HPI: 67.78
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1931 - 1989
HPI: 67.75
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1949 - Present
HPI: 67.73
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1901 - 1981
HPI: 67.70
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1580 - 1626
HPI: 67.69
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1625 - 1672
HPI: 67.63
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1883 - 1931
HPI: 67.52
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1628 - 1682
HPI: 67.33
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1962 - Present
HPI: 67.27
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1858 - 1930
HPI: 67.11
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1889 - 1947
HPI: 67.07
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Among mathematicians born in Netherlands, Willebrord Snellius ranks 1. After him are Willem de Sitter (1872), L. E. J. Brouwer (1881), Isaac Beeckman (1588), Gemma Frisius (1508), Bartel Leendert van der Waerden (1903), Hendrik C. van de Hulst (1918), Auguste Kerckhoffs (1835), Willem 's Gravesande (1688), Thomas Joannes Stieltjes (1856), Arend Heyting (1898), and Diederik Korteweg (1848).
1580 - 1626
HPI: 67.69
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1872 - 1934
HPI: 58.87
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1881 - 1966
HPI: 58.31
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1588 - 1637
HPI: 54.78
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1508 - 1555
HPI: 53.50
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1903 - 1996
HPI: 53.39
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1918 - 2000
HPI: 52.70
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1835 - 1903
HPI: 51.76
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1688 - 1742
HPI: 51.05
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1856 - 1894
HPI: 50.55
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1898 - 1980
HPI: 48.96
Rank: 11
1848 - 1941
HPI: 41.74
Rank: 12