Antoine
Labeyrie
Year
2000
Subject
Electrical Engineering
Award
Benjamin Franklin Medal
Affiliation
Observatoire de Haute-Provence, Saint-Michel Observatoire | Saint-Michel Observatoire, France
Citation
For the invention of speckle interferometry which permits large ground-based astronomical telescopes to achieve their full theoretical angular resolution, and for pioneering work in extending Michelson's method for performing long-baseline multi-telescope interferometry to obtain angular resolutions on the order of 10-3 arc-seconds.