Alhazen

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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Alhazen
       n : 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) [syn: {al-Haytham}, {Ibn
           al-Haytham}, {Al-Hasan ibn al-Haytham}]