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unusual facts about Dmitri Dmitrievich Maksutov



Catadioptric system

The idea of replacing the complicated Schmidt corrector plate with an easy to manufacture full aperture spherical meniscus lens (a meniscus corrector shell) to create a wide field telescope occurred to at least 4 optical designers in early 1940s war-torn Europe, including Albert Bouwers (1940), Dmitri Dmitrievich Maksutov (1941), K. Penning, and Dennis Gabor (1941).


see also

Maksutov

Maksutov telescope, catadioptric telescope with a meniscus corrector invented in 1941 by Dmitri Dmitrievich Maksutov

2568 Maksutov, a main-belt asteroid named after Dmitri Dmitrievich Maksutov