Pierre Puiseux
Pierre Henri Puiseux | |
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Born | |
Died | 28 September 1928 | (aged 73)
Alma mater | École Normale Supérieure (Ph.D, 1879) |
Spouse | Béatrice Laurence Elise Puiseux née Bouvet |
Awards | Valz Prize (1892) Lalande Prize (1896) Prix Jules Janssen (1900) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Astronomy |
Institutions | Paris Observatory University of Paris |
Pierre Henri Puiseux (French: [pɥizø]; 20 July 1855 – 28 September 1928) was a French astronomer.
Born in Paris, son of Victor Puiseux, he was educated at the École Normale Supérieure before starting work as an astronomer at the Paris Observatory in 1885.
He worked on the aberration of light, asteroids, lunar dynamics and, in collaboration with Maurice Loewy, the ill-fated Carte du Ciel project. Puiseux created a photographic atlas of the Moon based on 6000 photographs taken by him and Loewy. In 1892 he was awarded the Valz Prize,[1] and in 1896 was he awarded the Lalande Prize, both from the French Academy of Sciences, which he would later become a member of in 1912.
In 1900, Puiseux received the Prix Jules Janssen, the highest award of the Société astronomique de France (the French astronomical society). He became the Society's president from 1911 to 1913.[2]
The crater Puiseux on the Moon is named after him.[3]
He was a believing and practicing Catholic who died with the sacraments of the Church.[4]
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References
- ^ Thomas Klöti (2007). "Puiseux, Pierre‐Henri". Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers: Puiseux, Pierre‐Henri. Springer. pp. 937–938. doi:10.1007/978-0-387-30400-7_1130. ISBN 9780387310220.
- ^ Bulletin de la Société astronomique de France, 1911, vol. 25, pp. 581-586
- ^ IAU/USGS. "Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature".
- ^ Charle, Christophe; Telkes, Eva (1989). "100. Puiseux (Pierre)". Publications de l'Institut National de Recherche Pédagogique. 25 (1): 239–241.
External links
- Works by Pierre Puiseux at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Pierre Puiseux at Internet Archive
- P. Puiseux @ Astrophysics Data System
- Atlas photographique de la Lune, on the digital library of Paris Observatory
Obituaries
- JRASC 22 (1928) 394 (one sentence)
- MNRAS 89 (1929) 327
- PASP 40 (1928) 413 (one paragraph)
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