- Source: Pierre Puiseux
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, 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.
The crater Puiseux on the Moon is named after him.
He was a believing and practicing Catholic who died with the sacraments of the Church.
References
External links
Works by Pierre Puiseux at Project Gutenberg
Works by or about Pierre Puiseux at the 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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- Maurice Loewy
- List of astronomers
- List of craters on the Moon: O–Q
- Pierre Ossian Bonnet
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- Volcanism on the Moon
- List of lay Catholic scientists
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