Paris Pişmiş
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| Born | 30 January 1911 |
| Died | 1 August 1999 (aged 88) |
| Nationality | Mexican |
Marie Paris Pişmiş de Recillas (
Mexican astronomer
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Pişmiş was born Mari Sukiasian (
Erwin Finlay Freundlich. Later, she went to Harvard University where she met her future husband Félix Recillas, a Mexican mathematician. They settled in Mexico, and she became the first professional astronomer in Mexico.[1] According to Dorrit Hoffleit
, "she is the one person most influential in establishing Mexico’s importance in astronomical education and research".
For more than 50 years she worked at UNAM which awarded her a number of prizes including the "Science Teaching Prize". She was a member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences.[2]
Pişmiş studied among others the kinematics of
open star clusters and planetary nebulae. She compiled the catalogue Pismis of 24 open clusters and 2 globular clusters in the southern hemisphere.[3]
In 1998, she published an autobiography entitled "Reminiscences in the Life of Paris Pişmiş: a Woman Astronomer". She died in 1999. According to her wish, she was
Elsa Recillas Pishmish, son-in-law Carlos Cruz-González, and grand-daughter Irene Cruz-González also became astronomers.[4]
HII regions
identified in her catalogue.References
- ^ "Paris Pismis". www.tayabeixo.org.
- ^ "Astronomy section members" (PDF). Mexican Academy of Sciences. 2022. Retrieved 2022-12-18.
- ^ SIMBAD list of Pismis clusters
- ^ Poniatowska, Elena (1999). "La doctora en astronomía Paris Pishmish". La Jornada.
Further reading
- Dorrit Hoffleit (2005). "Two Turkish lady astronomers". Bibcode:2005JAVSO..33..127H.
- Silvia Torres Peimbert (1999). "Obituary: Paris Marie Pismis, 1911-1999". Bibcode:1999BAAS...31.1607T.
External links
- Biography (in Spanish)
- Bülent Uyar on Paris Pişmiş (in Turkish)
- İspanyol.com (in Turkish)
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