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How to pronounce "Huygens"
In the physics community we have our heros, about whom we collect quotations,legends, and so on. But we often don't know much about the history of thesegiants, or even the pronunciation of their names.A case in point is the Dutch physicist Christiaan Huygens, whose name isassociated with optics (the famous "Huygens' Principle," which describes thepropagation of a wavefront). Physicists pronounce his name "hoy-gens"; atleast that's the way it was taught to me. But I always had a suspicion thatthe guy who taught me waves was not a reliable source of correct pronunciation.He came from Brooklyn, and used to say things like "...if you want to know thelenth of moy hawpsichord strins.."Anyway, I had a chance to find out, when I moved to Lexington, Massachusetts,and lived in a small community with five Dutch families. I asked one of themhow they pronounced "hoygens," to which they replied "Who??!!" I tried a fewmore times, finally spelling it out, which did the trick. I can't easilytranscribe the way they say it, but I did make a recording of four differentnative Dutch speakers saying this gentleman's name. They volunteered that Imight be interested in another famous Dutch optical luminary, namely Antony vanLeeuwenhoek; he's there, too. Checkitout by clicking on the link below | | VClickhere to get the authentic mp3 file, about a minute long.
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