Descartes-Huygens Prize

Summary

Descartes-Huygens Prize is an award^[1]. It ranks in the top 4% of award entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2 views/month).^[2]

Key Facts

• Descartes-Huygens Prize is in the country of Netherlands^[3].
• Descartes-Huygens Prize is in the country of France^[4].
• Descartes-Huygens Prize's instance of is recorded as award^[5].
• Descartes-Huygens Prize's instance of is recorded as science award^[6].
• René Descartes is named after Descartes-Huygens Prize^[7].
• Christiaan Huygens is named after Descartes-Huygens Prize^[8].
• +1995-01-01T00:00:00Z marks the founding of Descartes-Huygens Prize^[9].
• Descartes-Huygens Prize's conferred by is recorded as Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences^[10].
• Descartes-Huygens Prize's conferred by is recorded as French Academy of Sciences^[11].
• Descartes-Huygens Prize's category for recipients of this award is recorded as Category:Laureates of the Descartes-Huygens Prize^[12].
• Descartes-Huygens Prize's Google Knowledge Graph ID is recorded as /g/1q67k02v0^[13].

Body

Geography

Country listings include Netherlands^[3], a country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands^[14], in Kingdom of the Netherlands^[15], founded in 1795^[16] and France^[4], a sovereign state^[17], in France^[18], founded in 0843^[19].

Designation and Status

Recorded instance of include award^[5] and science award^[6].

History and Context

+1995-01-01T00:00:00Z marks the founding of Descartes-Huygens Prize^[9]. Things named after include René Descartes^[7], a philosopher^[20], 1596–1650^[21], of France^[22], specialised in philosophy^[23] and Christiaan Huygens^[8], an astronomer^[24], 1629–1695^[25], of Dutch Republic^[26], awarded the Fellow of the Royal Society^[27], specialised in mathematics^[28].

Why It Matters

Descartes-Huygens Prize ranks in the top 4% of award entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2 views/month).^[2]