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 filter (polarization-interference monochromator, birefringent filter),: 106 named for its inventor and French astronomer Bernard Lyot, is a type...
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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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Depolarizer (optics) (redirect from Lyot depolarizer)
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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(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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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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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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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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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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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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Liais Jean-Baptiste Lislet Geoffroy Maurice Loewy Jean-Pierre Luminet Bernard Lyot Louis Maillard Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan Giacomo F. Maraldi Giovanni...
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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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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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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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January 1 – Ana Aslan (died 1988), Romanian biologist. February 27 – Bernard Lyot (died 1952), French astronomer. March 24 – Wilhelm Reich (died 1957)...
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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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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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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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