Name Hans Wolter | Role Physicist | |
Died August 17, 1978, Marburg, Germany | ||
Hans Wolter (11 May 1911 – 17 August 1978) was a German physicist who designed an aplanatic system of grazing incidence mirrors that satisfied the Abbe sine condition (i.e. free of both spherical aberration and coma). 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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