Pierre Puiseux

Pierre Henri Puiseux
Pierre Henri Puiseux
Born	July 20, 1855; Paris, France
Died	September 28, 1928 (aged 73)
Alma mater	École Normale Supérieure (Ph.D, 1879)
Spouse(s)	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]; 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, 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 1911-1913.[2]

The crater Puiseux on the Moon is named after him.[3]

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".

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