Henri Jacques Chrétien (French pronunciation: [ɑ̃ʁi ʒak kʁetjɛ̃]; 1 February 1879, Paris – 6 February 1956, Washington, D.C.) was a French astronomer and...
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scholar Chrétien Urhan (1790–1845), French musician and composer Gilles-Louis Chrétien (1754–1811) inventor of the physionotrace Henri Chrétien, (1879–1956)...
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Ritchey–Chrétien telescope was invented in the early 1910s by American astronomer George Willis Ritchey and French astronomer Henri Chrétien. Ritchey...
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developed by Henri Chrétien during World War I to provide a wide angle viewer for military tanks. The optical process was called Hypergonar by Chrétien and was...
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furniture maker. He coinvented the Ritchey–Chrétien (R–C) reflecting telescope along with Henri Chrétien. The R-C prescription remains the predominant...
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north. The irregular satellite crater Chrétien C, which shares the straight and narrow northeastern rim of Chrétien, is also covered with this dark basaltic...
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Cassegrain reflector (section Ritchey-Chrétien)
photographic observations. It was invented by George Willis Ritchey and Henri Chrétien in the early 1910s. This design is very common in large professional...
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contribute to safety. The reflector was first invented in 1917 in Nice by Henri Chrétien to provide the army a communication system the enemy could not intercept...
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without glasses. President Spyros Skouras struck a deal with the inventor Henri Chrétien, leaving the other film studios empty-handed, and in 1953 introduced...
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his modest and solitary attitude. Born in Paris to Henri and Anna Chrétien, Chrétien was raised in an agnostic household. His father was a communist activist...
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