Papers, etc.

Papers are at the Observatoire du Paris archives. There is some information about this collection at the AIP Center for History of Physics.

Other References: Historical

Davoust, Emmanuel, “A Hundred Years of Science at the Pic du Midi Observatory”
http://webast.ast.obs-mip.fr/patrimoine/asp.html

Davoust, Emmanuel, l’Observatoire du Pic du Midi: Cent ans de vie et de science en haute montagne (CNRS editions, 2000)

Département d’Astronomie Solaire de l’Observatoire de Paris & Laboratoire de Physique du Soleil et de l’Héliosphère, “La Physique Solaire au Cours du Temps”
http://www.dasop.obspm.fr/dasop/sciences/chap1/physsol.html

Rondi, André & Sylvain, “Flammes du Soleil” [images and text from a film made in the 1950s at the Paris Observatory as a tribute to Lyot]
http://www.astrosurf.com/rondi/coro/flammeslyot.htm
This site is an adjunct to the authors’ site on construction of a coronagraph
http://www.astrosurf.com/rondi/coro/

High Altitude Observatory, “Great Moments in the History of Solar Physics”
http://www.hao.ucar.edu/public/education/sp/great_moments.3.html#gm_1931

Hufbauer, Karl, “Artificial Eclipses: Bernard Lyot and the Coronagraph, 1929-39,” Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences 24, 2, 337-94 (1994).

Hufbauer, Karl, Exploring the Sun: Solar Science Since Galileo (Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1991).

Lyot, Bernard, Notice sur les Travaux Scientifiques de Bernard Lyot (1935).

Divan, Lucienne & Charlotte Pecker, “Étude des Spectres pris par Bernard Lyot à l'Éclipse de Khartoum du 28 Février 1952. - I. Résultats Expérimentaux,” Ann. d’Astrophys. 23, 541-66 (1960).

Pecker, Charlotte, “Étude des Spectres pris par Bernard Lyot a l’Éclipse de Khartoum du 28 Février 1952. - II. Eacute;tude d’une Condensation Coronale,” Ann. d’Astrophys. 23, 764-87 (1960).

Russell, Henry Norris, “The Eclipse, Bad Weather, and a New Way Out,” Scientific American 147, 338-39 (1932).

Russell, Henry Norris, “Artificial Eclipses: At Their Triennial Meeting the World’s Astronomers Witnessed the Amazing New Technique of Observing Solar Prominences and Corona without an Eclipse,” Scientific American 159, 240-41 (1938).

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Other References:Scientific

Lyot, B., Oeuvres, extracts from l'Astronomie, 1920-42 [This may not have been published, but it is in the Paris Observatory Library].

Lyot, Bernard, “Polarization of the Moon and of the Planets Mars and Mercury,” Comptes rendus de l’Académie des Sciences 178, 1796-98 (1924). [reprinted with commentary in A Source Book in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 1900-1975, Kenneth R. Lang & Owen Gingerich, eds. (Harvard Univ. Press, Cambridge, MA, 1979), pp. 108-10.]

Lyot, Bernard, “Recherches sur la Polarisation de la Lumière des Planètes et de quelques Substances Terrestres,” doctoral thesis, Université de Paris, 1929.

Lyot, Bernard, “Étude de la Couronne Solaire en dehors des Éclipses,” Zeitschrift für Astrophysik 5, 73-95(1932).

Lyot, Bernard, “The Study of the Solar Corona and Prominences without Eclipses (George Darwin Lecture, 1939),” MNRAS 99, 580-94 (1939).

Lyot, Bernard, “Le Filtre Monochromatique Polarisant et ses Applications en Physique SolaireAnn. d’Astrophys. 7, 31-79 (1944).

Lyot, Bernard, “Planetary and Solar Observations on the Pic du Midi in 1941, 1942, and 1943, Ap.J. 101, 255 (1945).

Lyot, Bernard, “Recherches sur la polarisat de la lumière des planetes et de quelques substances terrestres,” Annales de l’Observatoire de Paris, Section de Meudon, 8, 1 (1929). English translation available as NASA TT F-187: Research on the Polarization of Light from Planets and from Some Terrestrial Substances (Office of Technical Services, U.S. Dept. of Commerce, 1964).

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