Huygens College history

In 1894, after his company failed to get an important contract to electrify the city of Munich, Hermann Einstein moved to Milan to work with a relative.

He went to a special high school run by Jost Winteler in Aarau, Switzerland, and graduated in 1896.

In 1903 Einstein married Milena Maric, a Serbian physics student whom he had met at school in Zürich.

They were married in 1919, the same year he divorced Maric.

He is also known for his discovery of the photoelectric effect, for which he won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921.

In December 1926 Albert Einstein wrote to Max Born that “[t]he theory produces a good deal but hardly brings us closer to the secret of the Old One.

Further improvements increased that accuracy, so much so that pendulum clocks dominated the timekeeping sector for hundreds of years, until the invention of the quartz clock in 1927.

A E Bell, Christian Huygens and the Development of Science in the Seventeenth Century (London, 1947).

After suffering an abdominal aortic aneurysm rupture several days before, Albert Einstein died on April 18, 1955, at age 76.

D E Newbold, Christiaan Huygens, 1629-1695, in Late seventeenth century scientists (Oxford, 1969), 107-131.

A Van Helden, A note about Christiaan Huygens's 'De Saturni luna observatio nova', Janus 62 (1-3) (1975), 13-15.

H J M Bos, The influence of Huygens on the formation of Leibniz' ideas, in Leibniz in Paris (1672-1676) (Wiesbaden, 1978), 59-68.

A Elzinga, Christiaan Huygens' theory of research, Janus 67 (4) (1980), 281-300.

C B Burch, Huygens' pulse models as a bridge between phenomena and Huygens' mechanical foundations, Janus 68 (1-3) (1981), 53-64.

D Parrochia, Optique, mécanique et calcul des chances chez Huygens et Spinoza (sur quelques paradigmes possibles du discours philosophique), Dialectica 38 (4) (1984), 319-345.

Christiaan Huygens and the mathematization of nature (Cambridge, 1988).

H J M Bos, Recognition and wonder : Huygens, tractional motion and some thoughts on the history of mathematics, Tractrix 1 (1989), 3-20.

J H Leopold, Christiaan Huygens, the Royal Society and horology, Antiquarian horology 21 (1993), 37-42.

C Vilain, Huygens and relative motion, in Relativity in general (Gif-sur-Yvette, 1994), 161-169.

In 2000, Georgia Tech physicists conducted experiments and found that Huygens’ intuition on this score was correct.