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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pierre Puiseux has received more than 11,828 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Pierre Puiseux is the 465th most popular astronomer, the 4,345th most popular biography from France and the 47th most popular French Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Pierre Puiseux ranks 465 out of 531. Before him are Mary Watson Whitney, David Todd Wilkinson, William Robert Brooks, Margaret Geller, William de Wiveleslie Abney, and David H. Levy. After him are Carolyn Porco, Royal Harwood Frost, Edward S. Holden, DeLisle Stewart, Fyodor Bredikhin, and Bohdan Paczyński.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1855, Pierre Puiseux ranks 84. Before him are Emil Paur, Nataliya Kobrynska, Henry Nicholas Ridley, August Spies, Juan Zorrilla de San Martín, and Ludwig Ganghofer. After him are Clinton Hart Merriam, Olive Schreiner, Robert M. La Follette, Cecilia Beaux, C. V. Boys, and John McKenna. Among people deceased in 1928, Pierre Puiseux ranks 97. Before him are Georges Passerieu, Theodore Roberts, Roman Steinberg, Bill Haywood, Klabund, and Gunnar Setterwall. After him are Jan Sztolcman, Andrew Fisher, Árpád Tóth, James Whitbread Lee Glaisher, Antonín Sova, and Karl Röderer.

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In France

Among people born in France, Pierre Puiseux ranks 4,345 out of 6,011. Before him are Claude Allègre (1937), Sylvain Chomet (1963), Pierre Coffin (1967), Jean de Sponde (1557), Pierre Adam (1924), and André Marie Constant Duméril (1774). After him are César Ruminski (1924), Hippolyte Mège-Mouriès (1817), Louis Armand (1905), Marie-George Buffet (1949), Sidney Govou (1979), and Danièle Dupré (1938).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In France

Among astronomers born in France, Pierre Puiseux ranks 47. Before him are Catherine Cesarsky (1943), Alfred Schmitt (1907), Stéphane Javelle (1864), Audouin Dollfus (1924), Joseph Jean Pierre Laurent (1823), and Michel Giacobini (1873). After him are Ernest Esclangon (1876) and Françoise Combes (1952).

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