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Hans Wolter

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German physicist (1911-1978)

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Hans Wolter was a German physicist who designed an aplanatic system of grazing incidence mirrors that satisfied the Abbe sine condition . Wolter showed such a system could be produced using a combination of a paraboloid with either a hyperboloid or ellipsoid secondary.

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Hans Wolter was a German physicist who designed an aplanatic system of grazing incidence mirrors that satisfied the Abbe sine condition . Wolter showed such a system could be produced using a combination of a paraboloid with either a hyperboloid or ellipsoid secondary. The three simplest designs are outlined and are known as Wolter telescopes of types I, II and III.

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Germany
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Scientists
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Scientist
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deceased
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Lived 1911 to 1978 · aged 67
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8 languages

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