Antoine Émile Henry Labeyrie
Antoine Émile Henry Labeyrie (born May 12, 1943 in Paris ) is a French astronomer .
Life
Labeyrie completed his engineering studies at the École supérieure d'optique , one of the Grandes écoles , in 1966 and received his doctorate in 1970. He is a professor at the Collège de France . His laboratory for interferometry of stars and exoplanets (Laboratoire d'Interférométrie Stellaire et Exo-planétaire, LISE) is located at the Observatoire de Haute-Provence . Since 1999 he has been a full member of the Academia Europaea .
Labeyries research area is optics , especially interferometry techniques . He developed the speckle interferometry . He is currently working on the concept of a "hyperteloscope" (also known as the Exo Earth Imager ), an interferometer that combines a fleet of space telescopes and is large enough to be able to resolve structures on exoplanets .
Awards
- 1990 Beatrice M. Tinsley Prize
- The asteroid 8788 Labeyrie is named after him
- 2014 Tycho Brahe Prize
Web links
- Article u. a. via the hypertelescope. Telepolis
- Publication about hypertelescopes (English, interferometer using densified pupil beam combiners ) arxiv : astro-ph / 9602093
- Article about the hypertelescope ( Memento from June 22, 2000 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ^ Membership directory: Antoine Labeyrie. Academia Europaea, accessed September 7, 2017 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Labeyrie, Antoine Émile Henry |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French astronomer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 12, 1943 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |