{{short description|American physicist}} {{Infobox scientist | image = OlivierGuyon.jpg | image_size = | caption = Guyon in 2012 | name = Olivier Guyon | birth_place = | birth_date = 1975 | citizenship = United States | fields = Astronomy | workplaces = | alma_mater = Université Pierre et Marie Curie Ph. D. | known_for = | children = | awards = MacArthur Fellowship (2012) | website = }} '''Olivier Guyon''' (born 1975) is a French-American astronomer. He is an astronomer at the Steward Observatory of the college of science and professor in the James C. Wyant College of Optical Sciences,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.optics.arizona.edu/person/olivier-guyon|title=Olivier Guyon|publisher=University of Arizona|accessdate=12 October 2014}}</ref> both of The University of Arizona. He is the SCExAO Project Scientist at the Subaru Telescope. Guyon was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship "Genius Grant" in 2012.<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.macfound.org/fellows/866/ | title=Olivier Guyon - MacArthur Foundation}}</ref>
Guyon designs telescopes and other astronomical instrumentation that aid in the search for exoplanets planets outside the Solar System.<ref>{{cite web|title=Oliver Guyon|url=https://www.as.arizona.edu/people/faculty/olivier-guyon}}</ref> Specifically, coronagraphs and extreme adaptive optics.
Guyon developed the PANOPTES project,<ref>{{cite web|title=PANOPTES project |url=//www.projectpanoptes.org}}</ref> a citizen science project that aims to make it easy for anyone to build a low cost, robotic telescope that can be used to detect transiting exoplanets.
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==External links== *[http://www.naoj.org/staff/guyon/ Oliver Guyon] website at the Subaru Telescope
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