- Pierre Puiseux
Pierre Henri Puiseux (
July 20 1855 –September 28 1928 ) was a Frenchastronomer .Born in
Paris , son ofVictor Puiseux , he was educated at theEcole Normale Supérieure before starting work as an astronomer at theParis Observatory in 1885.He worked on the
aberration of light ,asteroid s, lunar dynamics and, in collaboration withMaurice 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
* [http://adsabs.harvard.edu//full/seri/JRASC/0022//0000394.000.html JRASC 22 (1928) 394] (one sentence)
* [http://adsabs.harvard.edu//full/seri/MNRAS/0089//0000327.000.html MNRAS 89 (1929) 327]
* [http://adsabs.harvard.edu//full/seri/PASP./0040//0000413.000.html PASP 40 (1928) 413] (one paragraph)
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