Misplaced Pages

Olivier Guyon

Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.
American physicist
Olivier Guyon
Guyon in 2012
Born1975
NationalityFrench
CitizenshipUnited States
Alma materUniversité Pierre et Marie Curie Ph. D.
AwardsMacArthur Fellowship (2012)
Scientific career
FieldsAstronomy

Olivier Guyon (born 1975) is a French-American astronomer. He is an astronomer at the Steward Observatory of the college of science and professor in the James C. Wyant College of Optical Sciences, both of The University of Arizona. He is the SCExAO Project Scientist at the Subaru Telescope. Guyon was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship "Genius Grant" in 2012.

Guyon designs telescopes and other astronomical instrumentation that aid in the search for exoplanets planets outside the Solar System. Specifically, coronagraphs and extreme adaptive optics.

Guyon developed the PANOPTES project, a citizen science project that aims to make it easy for anyone to build a low cost, robotic telescope that can be used to detect transiting exoplanets.

References

  1. "Olivier Guyon". University of Arizona. Retrieved 12 October 2014.
  2. "Olivier Guyon - MacArthur Foundation".
  3. "Oliver Guyon".
  4. "PANOPTES project".

External links


Flag of FranceScientist icon

This article about a French physicist is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

Flag of United StatesScientist icon

This article about an American physicist is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

Categories: