ASTRONOMER

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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pierre Puiseux has received more than 12,688 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Pierre Puiseux is the 500th most popular astronomer (down from 465th in 2019), the 4,796th most popular biography from France (down from 4,328th in 2019) and the 50th most popular French Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Pierre Puiseux ranks 500 out of 644. Before him are Yuji Hyakutake, Robert Emden, Frank Shu, Takao Kobayashi, David C. Jewitt, and James Challis. After him are Michel Giacobini, Matvey Gusev, Hisashi Kimura, Julie Vinter Hansen, Carl Ludwig Christian Rümker, and Bohdan Paczyński.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1855, Pierre Puiseux ranks 96. Before him are Marie Stritt, Ludwig Ganghofer, Robert M. La Follette, Henry Nicholas Ridley, Juan Zorrilla de San Martín, and William Friese-Greene. After him are August Spies, Clinton Hart Merriam, Edward Angle, Elena Maróthy-Šoltésová, John McKenna, and Lidiya Tseraskaya. Among people deceased in 1928, Pierre Puiseux ranks 109. Before him are Marie Stritt, Jane Ellen Harrison, Roman Steinberg, Karl Röderer, Nina Bang, and Lewis Howard Latimer. After him are Bill Haywood, James Whitbread Lee Glaisher, Xiang Jingyu, Jan Sztolcman, Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, and Árpád Tóth.

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In France

Among people born in France, Pierre Puiseux ranks 4,796 out of 6,770. Before him are Gaston Mercier (1932), Jean Forestier (1930), Anthony Martial (1995), Jean Despeaux (1915), Marion Hänsel (1949), and Pierre Trentin (1944). After him are Stéphanie Frappart (1983), Michel Giacobini (1873), Joseph François Dupleix (1697), Henri Guérin (1905), Robert Mouynet (1930), and Léon-Étienne Duval (1903).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In France

Among astronomers born in France, Pierre Puiseux ranks 50. Before him are Fernand Courty (1862), Odette Bancilhon (1908), Alexandre Schaumasse (1882), Alfred Schmitt (1907), Audouin Dollfus (1924), and Louise du Pierry (1746). After him are Michel Giacobini (1873), Ernest Esclangon (1876), and Françoise Combes (1952).

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