Olivier Guyon

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Olivier Guyon
MacArthur Fellowship
(2012)
Scientific career
FieldsAstronomy

Olivier Guyon (born 1975) is a French-American

MacArthur Fellowship "Genius Grant" in 2012.[2]

Guyon designs telescopes and other astronomical instrumentation that aid in the search for

exoplanets planets outside the Solar System.[3] Specifically, coronagraphs and extreme adaptive optics
.

Guyon developed the PANOPTES project,[4] 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".

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