Pierre Puiseux
Pierre Henri Puiseux
(
July 20
1855
–
September 28
1928
) was a
French
astronomer
. Born in
Paris
, son of
Victor Puiseux
, he was educated at the
Ecole 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 colloboration 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. The
Puiseux crater
on the
Moon
is named after him.
External links
Obituaries
JRASC
22
(1928) 394
(one sentence)
MNRAS
89
(1929) 327
PASP
40
(1928) 413
(one paragraph)
Puiseux, Pierre Puiseux, Pierre Puiseux, Pierre
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