Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun ibn_al-haytham

1 sense of ibn al-haytham

Sense 1
Alhazen, Alhacen, al-Haytham, Ibn al-Haytham, Al-Hasan ibn al-Haytham -- (an Egyptian polymath (born in Iraq) whose research in geometry and optics was influential into the 17th century; established experiments as the norm of proof in physics (died in 1040))
       INSTANCE OF=> mathematician -- (a person skilled in mathematics)
       INSTANCE OF=> physicist -- (a scientist trained in physics)
       INSTANCE OF=> astronomer, uranologist, stargazer -- (a physicist who studies astronomy)