Famous People with Name Wendelin

Wendelin Werner            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Wendelin Werner: is a German-born French mathematician working in the area of self-avoiding random walks, Schramm-Loewner evolution, and related theories in probability theory and mathematical physics.

Godefroy Wendelin            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Godefroy Wendelin: was a Flemish astronomer who was born in Herk-de-Stad. He is also known by the Latin name Vendelinus. His name is sometimes given as Govaert Wendelen; his first name spelt Godefroid or Gottfried.Around 1630 he measured the distance between the Earth and the Sun using the method of Aristarchus of Samos. The value he calculated was 60% of the true value (243 times the distance to the Moon; the true value is about 384 times; Aristarchus calculated about 20 times).In 1643 he recognized that Kepler's third law applied to the satellites of Jupiter.