biography
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Lyot, Bernard (Ferdinand)
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pronunciation:
[lyoh]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1897–1952)
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| biography:
| Astronomer, born in Paris, France. He studied engineering at the Ecole Supérieure d'Electricité, and worked at the Paris Observatory at Meudon from 1920. In 1930 he invented the coronagraph, a device which allows the Sun's corona to be observed without a total solar eclipse. He achieved this by creating an artificial eclipse inside a telescope. He also pioneered the study of the polarization of light reflected from the surface of the Moon and of the planets. |
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