Pierre Puiseux
Pierre Puiseux.
Pierre Henri Puiseux (French: [pɥizø]; July 20, 1855 – September 28, 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. He became a member of the academy in 1912.
The crater Puiseux on the Moon is named after him.[2]
References
- ↑ Thomas Klöti (2007). "Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers: Puiseux, Pierre‐Henri". Springer. pp. 937–938. ISBN 9780387310220.
- ↑ IAU/USGS. "Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature".
External links
- Works by Pierre Puiseux at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Pierre Puiseux at Internet Archive
- P. Puiseux @ Astrophysics Data System
Obituaries
- JRASC 22 (1928) 394 (one sentence)
- MNRAS 89 (1929) 327
- PASP 40 (1928) 413 (one paragraph)
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