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The French astronomer Antoine Labeyrie describes a method whereby atmospherically induced blurring can be thwarted to obtain resolved detail down to the theoretical diffraction limit, Labeyries technique of "speckle interferometry"
Antoine Labeyrie builds the first two-telescope optical interferometer
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