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Pierre Puiseux

1855 - 1928

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Pierre Puiseux is the 474th most popular astronomer (up from 500th in 2019), the 4,398th most popular biography from France (up from 4,797th in 2019) and the 47th most popular French Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Pierre Puiseux ranks 474 out of 644. Before him are William Wilson Morgan, Hugo Gyldén, Hiroki Kosai, Carolyn Porco, Elia Millosevich, and Minoru Honda. After him are Edward Pigott, Lyudmila Karachkina, Dilhan Eryurt, David L. Rabinowitz, Richard Schorr, and William Frederick Denning.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1855, Pierre Puiseux ranks 89. Before him are Frank Hadow, Karl Madsen, Henry Nicholas Ridley, August Spies, Vittoria Aganoor, and Cecilia Beaux. After him are Oskar von Miller, C. V. Boys, Clinton Hart Merriam, Marianne Stokes, Juan Zorrilla de San Martín, and Elena Maróthy-Šoltésová. Among people deceased in 1928, Pierre Puiseux ranks 92. Before him are Ivan Merz, Ladislav Klíma, George Dole, Adela Zamudio, Kostas Karyotakis, and Andrew Fisher. After him are Klabund, José Eustasio Rivera, Martin Kukučín, Paul van Ostaijen, Georges Passerieu, and Jane Ellen Harrison.

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In France

Among people born in France, Pierre Puiseux ranks 4,398 out of 6,770. Before him are Guy Drut (1950), René Dubos (1901), Michel Boisrond (1921), Antoine Vollon (1833), Frédérick Tristan (1931), and René Bondoux (1905). After him are Jacques-Joseph Champollion-Figeac (1778), Jacques-Pierre Amette (1943), Paul Passy (1859), Princess Marie of Denmark (1976), Florence Delay (1941), and Gilbert Duclos-Lassalle (1954).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In France

Among astronomers born in France, Pierre Puiseux ranks 47. Before him are Stéphane Javelle (1864), Odette Bancilhon (1908), Catherine Cesarsky (1943), Adrien Auzout (1622), Fernand Courty (1862), and Audouin Dollfus (1924). After him are Ernest Esclangon (1876), Louise du Pierry (1746), Alexandre Schaumasse (1882), Michel Giacobini (1873), Alfred Schmitt (1907), and Françoise Combes (1952).

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