Pierre Henri Puiseux (1855 – 1928). French astronomer.
He created a photographic atlas of the Moon based on 6000 photographs taken by him and Maurice Loewy. In 1892 he was awarded the Valz Prize, and in 1896 was he awarded the Lalande Prize, both from the French Academy of Sciences, which he would later become a member of in 1912.
In 1900, Puiseux received the Prix Jules Janssen, the highest award of the Société astronomique de France (the French astronomical society). He became the Society's president from 1911 to 1913.
The crater Puiseux on the Moon is named after him.
- "His physical appearance was strange: a brush of red hair, dishevelled around the large forehead of a thinker, blue eyes extraordinarily sharp and brilliant..." https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Puiseux/
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