ESO Telescope Designer Raymond Wilson Wins Prestigious Kavli Award for Astrophysics
4 Jun 2010, 08:00 UTC
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Raymond Wilson, whose pioneering optics research at ESO made today’s giant telescopes possible thanks to “active optics” technology, has been awarded the 2010 Kavli Prize in astrophysics. The founder and original leader of the Optics and Telescopes Group at ESO, Wilson shares the million-dollar prize with two American scientists, Jerry Nelson and Roger Angel.
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