• Bernard Ferdinand Lyot (27 February 1897 in Paris – 2 April 1952 in Cairo) was a French astronomer. An avid reader of the works of Camille Flammarion,...
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  • Lyot may refer to: Bernard Lyot, French astronomer Lyot filter Lyot stop Lyot depolarizer Lyot (lunar crater) Lyot (Martian crater) 2452 Lyot, asteroid...
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    The Bernard Lyot Telescope (Téléscope Bernard Lyot, or TBL) is a 2 m Cassegrain telescope operating in the visible domain, since 1980. It is located at...
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  • A Lyot stop (also called a glare stop) is an optical stop, invented by French astronomer Bernard Lyot, that reduces the amount of flare caused by diffraction...
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  • A Lyot filter (polarization-interference monochromator, birefringent filter),: 106  named for its inventor and French astronomer Bernard Lyot, is a type...
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    scientifically accepted years after. A 2-meter telescope, known as the Bernard Lyot Telescope was placed at the observatory in 1980 on top of a 28-meter...
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  • designs are commercially available. The Lyot depolarizer is another early design. It was invented by Bernard Lyot. It consists of two wave plates with their...
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    quadrangle. It is 236 km in diameter. Its name refers to Bernard Lyot, a French astronomer (1897–1952). Lyot crater, featuring a central peak in the middle, stands...
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  • biglaw firm) that serves large corporations and wealthy individuals Bernard Lyot Telescope, known as TBL in French Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World...
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    astronomer at the Meudon Observatory, following his advisor and mentor Bernard Lyot. In particular, he directed the Laboratory of Solar System Physics there...
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  • bacteriologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1932. April 2 – Bernard Lyot (born 1897), French astronomer. April 8 – Tadeusz Estreicher (born 1871)...
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  • František Janeček Loganberry – James Harvey Logan Lyot filter, Lyot stop and Lyot depolarizer – Bernard Lyot Macadam, tarmac – John Loudon McAdam Machmeter...
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  • proposes hydrogen is the dominant element of the Sun, not iron 1929 — Bernard Lyot invents the coronagraph and observes the corona with an "artificial eclipse"...
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    in perfecting spectrography and has been considered a predecessor of Bernard Lyot. He also attempted to construct a machine for colour photography and...
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    series of spectropolarimetric observations obtained in 2010 with the Bernard Lyot Telescope at Pic du Midi Observatory revealed the presence of a weak...
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    (AGN). The coronagraph was introduced in 1931 by the French astronomer Bernard Lyot; since then, coronagraphs have been used at many solar observatories...
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    of a total solar eclipse, but this was not achieved until the work of Bernard Lyot. In October 1913, Hale received a letter from Albert Einstein, asking...
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  • Donald Lynden-Bell (United Kingdom, 1935–2018) Andrew Lyne (UK, 1942–) Bernard Lyot (France, 1897–1952) Mahendra Suri (India, 14th century CE) Ma Yize (China...
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    size and shape of the corona changes with the sunspot cycle. In 1930, Bernard Lyot invented the "coronograph" (now "coronagraph"), which allows viewing...
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  • 1942 – Jan H. Oort 1945 – E. Arthur Milne 1946 – Paul Merrill 1947 – Bernard Lyot 1948 – Otto Struve 1949 – Harold Spencer Jones 1950 – Alfred H. Joy 1951...
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    instrument that detected polarization of light, installed in the 1920s by Bernard Lyot. The telescope was established in 1891, and the second lens for photography...
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  • Suriray, a Parisian bicycle mechanic, on 3 August 1869. Coronagraph by Bernard Lyot in 1930. Stapler List of Dutch inventions and discoveries List of German...
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    franges d'interférences (1892) Notable students Jean Dufay Yves Rocard Bernard Lyot Yan Jici Sisir Kumar Mitra Anil Kumar Das Jean Cabannes Daniel Chalonge...
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    Hisashi Kimura 1937 Harold Jeffreys 1938 William Hammond Wright 1939 Bernard Lyot 1940 Edwin Hubble 1941 No award 1942 No award 1943 Harold Spencer Jones...
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    determined compared to other methods. During the 1920s, French astronomer Bernard Lyot used a polarimeter to study the surface properties of the Moon and planets...
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    ESO's 3.6m telescope (La Silla Observatory, Chile), as well as NARVAL at Bernard Lyot Telescope (Pic du Midi de Bigorre, France). The technique is very reliable...
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    14278°E / 42.93639; 0.14278 (Pic du Midi Observatory) 1878 Optical, solar Bernard Lyot Telescope Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station / Martin A. Pomerantz Observatory...
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    study of stellar magnetic fields was NARVAL, which was mounted on the Bernard Lyot Telescope at the Pic du Midi de Bigorre in the French Pyrenees mountains...
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  • core of its focus area "Universe, Planet, Space, Environment" (UPEE). Bernard Lyot Telescope, at Pic du Midi Observatory Institut de recherche en astrophysique...
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    equipment. He built on the work of his predecessors Evgenios Antoniadis and Bernard Lyot. He has been honored by countless institutions around the world. Regrettably...
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