The 2000 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Engineering presented to Antoine Labeyrie

✍ Scribed by Lawrence W Dobbins

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 772 KB
• Volume: 337
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/s0016-0032(00)00059-4

✦ Synopsis

The Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, awarded the 2000 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Engineering to Antoine Labeyrie for the discovery 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 longbaseline multi-telescope interferometry to obtain angular resolution on the order to 10 À3 /s arcsec.