Donders is a
Dutch surname meaning "thunder's", perhaps originally referring to a person's temper or voice, or to an artillery man.
Donders
at the Database of Surnames in The Netherlands. Donders may refer to:
* Peter Donders (1807–1887), Dutch beatified Roman Catholic Missionary
* Franciscus Donders
Franciscus (Franz) Cornelius Donders FRS FRSE (27 May 1818 – 24 March 1889) was a Dutch ophthalmologist. During his career, he was a professor of physiology in Utrecht, and was internationally regarded as an authority on eye diseases, directi ...
(1818–1889), Dutch ophthalmologist
**Donders' law Listing's law, named after German mathematician Johann Benedict Listing (1808–1882), describes the three-dimensional orientation of the eye and its axes of rotation. Listing's law has been shown to hold when the head is stationary and upright and ...
, describing the three-dimensional orientation of the eye and its axes of rotation
**Donders Centre for Cognition
The Donders Centre for Cognition (former Nijmegen Institute for Cognition and Information) is a research institute for cognitive science, neuroscience and information technology. It was founded in 1986 as an integral part of the Faculty of Social ...
and F.C. Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging, research institutes
* Rianne Donders-de Leest (born 1960), Dutch CDA politician
* Mireille Donders (born 1974), Swiss sprinter
See also
* Donner, German surname with the same meaning
References
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Dutch-language surnames