Blondel may refer to: *

Apostilb The apostilb is an obsolete unit of luminance. The SI unit of luminance is the candela per square metre (cd/m2). In 1942 Parry Moon proposed to rename the apostilb the blondel, after the French physicist André Blondel. The symbol for the apostilb i ...

, an old unit of luminance *

Blondel (surname) Blondel is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * André Blondel (1863–1938), French scientist and engineer * Antoine Blondel (1795–1886), French politician * David Blondel (1591–1655), French Protestant clergyman and scholar ...

Blondel de Nesle Blondel de Nesle – either Jean I of Nesle (c. 1155 – 1202) or his son Jean II of Nesle (died 1241) – was a French trouvère. The name 'Blondel de Nesle' is attached to twenty-four or twenty-five courtly songs. He was identified in 1942, b ...

(c. 1155 – 1202), French trouvère, or poet *

Jean-François Blondel Jean-François Blondel (1683 – 9 October 1756) was an 18th-century French architect. Biography Born in Rouen, Blondel was admitted in the Académie d'architecture in 1728. He was the master and uncle of Jacques-François. He also had anoth ...

(1683–1756), French architect *

Maurice Blondel Maurice Blondel (; 2 November 1861 – 4 June 1949) was a French philosopher, whose most influential works, notably ''L'Action'', aimed at establishing the correct relationship between autonomous philosophical reasoning and Christian belief. Bi ...

(1861–1949), French philosopher *

Vincent Blondel Vincent Daniel Blondel (born April 28, 1965) is a Belgian professor of applied mathematics and current rector of the University of Louvain (UCLouvain) and a visiting professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Blondel's researc ...

(born 1965), Belgian applied mathematician *

Amazing Blondel Amazing Blondel are an England, English acoustic progressive folk band, containing Eddie Baird, John Gladwin, and Terry Wincott. They released a number of LPs for Island Records in the early 1970s. They are sometimes categorised as psychedelic ...

, an English progressive folk band ** ''Blondel'' (album), a 1973 album by the band * ''Blondel'' (musical), a rock opera

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