Solar astronomy Coronagraph Lyot depolarizer Lyot filter Lyot stop
Awards
Lalande Prize (1928) Prix Jules Janssen (1932) Howard N. Potts Medal (1942) Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1939) Henry Draper Medal (1951)
Scientific career
Fields
Astronomy
Bernard Ferdinand Lyot (27 February 1897 in Paris – 2 April 1952 in Cairo) was a French astronomer.
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,...
The BernardLyot Telescope (Téléscope BernardLyot, or TBL) is a 2 m Cassegrain telescope operating in the visible domain, since 1980. It is located at...
A Lyot stop (also called a glare stop) is an optical stop, invented by French astronomer BernardLyot, that reduces the amount of flare caused by diffraction...
A Lyot filter (polarization-interference monochromator, birefringent filter),: 106 named for its inventor and French astronomer BernardLyot, is a type...
scientifically accepted years after. A 2-meter telescope, known as the BernardLyot Telescope was placed at the observatory in 1980 on top of a 28-meter...
biglaw firm) that serves large corporations and wealthy individuals BernardLyot Telescope, known as TBL in French Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World...
astronomer at the Meudon Observatory, following his advisor and mentor BernardLyot. In particular, he directed the Laboratory of Solar System Physics there...
bacteriologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1932. April 2 – BernardLyot (born 1897), French astronomer. April 8 – Tadeusz Estreicher (born 1871)...
proposes hydrogen is the dominant element of the Sun, not iron 1929 — BernardLyot invents the coronagraph and observes the corona with an "artificial eclipse"...
study of stellar magnetic fields was NARVAL, which was mounted on the BernardLyot Telescope at the Pic du Midi de Bigorre in the French Pyrenees mountains...
1942 – Jan H. Oort 1945 – E. Arthur Milne 1946 – Paul Merrill 1947 – BernardLyot 1948 – Otto Struve 1949 – Harold Spencer Jones 1950 – Alfred H. Joy 1951...
Suriray, a Parisian bicycle mechanic, on 3 August 1869. Coronagraph by BernardLyot in 1930. Stapler List of Dutch inventions and discoveries List of German...
Donald Lynden-Bell (United Kingdom, 1935–2018) Andrew Lyne (UK, 1942–) BernardLyot (France, 1897–1952) Mahendra Suri (India, 14th century CE) Ma Yize (China...
(AGN). The coronagraph was introduced in 1931 by the French astronomer BernardLyot; since then, coronagraphs have been used at many solar observatories...
series of spectropolarimetric observations obtained in 2010 with the BernardLyot Telescope at Pic du Midi Observatory revealed the presence of a weak...
size and shape of the corona changes with the sunspot cycle. In 1930, BernardLyot invented the "coronograph" (now "coronagraph"), which allows viewing...
of a total solar eclipse, but this was not achieved until the work of BernardLyot. In October 1913, Hale received a letter from Albert Einstein, asking...
14278°E / 42.93639; 0.14278 (Pic du Midi Observatory) 1878 Optical, solar BernardLyot Telescope Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station / Martin A. Pomerantz Observatory...
instrument that detected polarization of light, installed in the 1920s by BernardLyot. The telescope was established in 1891, and the second lens for photography...
Harvard College Observatory (it was patterned after one developed by BernardLyot in the 1930s in France). At the Harvard College Observatory in Climax...
Liais Jean-Baptiste Lislet Geoffroy Maurice Loewy Jean-Pierre Luminet BernardLyot Louis Maillard Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan Giacomo F. Maraldi Giovanni...
determined compared to other methods. During the 1920s, French astronomer BernardLyot used a polarimeter to study the surface properties of the Moon and planets...
equipment. He built on the work of his predecessors Evgenios Antoniadis and BernardLyot. He has been honored by countless institutions around the world. Regrettably...
franges d'interférences (1892) Notable students Jean Dufay Yves Rocard BernardLyot Yan Jici Sisir Kumar Mitra Anil Kumar Das Jean Cabannes Daniel Chalonge...
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