Paris Pişmiş
{{short description|Turkish-Mexican astronomer}}
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Marie Paris Pişmiş de Recillas ({{langx|hy|Բարիզ Փիշմիշ}}, 30 January 1911 – 1 August 1999) was an Armenian-Mexican astronomer.
Pişmiş was born Mari Sukiasian ({{langx|hy|Մարի Սուքիասեան}}) in 1911, in Ortaköy, Istanbul. She completed her high school studies at Üsküdar American Academy. In 1937, she became the first woman to get a Ph.D. from the Science Faculty of Istanbul University. Her advisor was 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.{{cite web|url=http://www.tayabeixo.org/biografias/pismis.htm|title=Paris Pismis|website=www.tayabeixo.org}} 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.{{cite web|url=https://www.amc.mx/amc/membresia/ASTRONOMIA2022.pdf|title=Astronomy section members|publisher=Mexican Academy of Sciences|year=2022|access-date=2022-12-18}}
Pişmiş studied among others the kinematics of galaxies, H II nebulae, the structure of open star clusters and planetary nebulae. She compiled the catalogue Pismis of 24 open clusters and 2 globular clusters in the southern hemisphere.[http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-ref?bibcode=1959BOTT....2r..37P&simbo=on SIMBAD list of Pismis clusters]
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 cremated. Her daughter Elsa Recillas Pishmish, son-in-law Carlos Cruz-González, and grand-daughter Irene Cruz-González also became astronomers.{{cite news|url=https://www.jornada.com.mx/1999/08/09/cul-elena.html|title=La doctora en astronomía Paris Pishmish|first=Elena|last=Poniatowska|year=1999|newspaper=La Jornada}}
File:EmissionNebula_NGC6357.jpg image of Pismis 24, one of the HII regions identified in her catalogue.]]
References
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Further reading
- {{cite journal
|author=Dorrit Hoffleit
|year=2005
|title=Two Turkish lady astronomers
|journal=Journal of the American Association of Variable Star Observers
|volume=33 |issue=2 |pages=127–129
|bibcode=2005JAVSO..33..127H
}}
- {{cite journal
|author=Silvia Torres Peimbert
|year=1999
|title=Obituary: Paris Marie Pismis, 1911-1999
|journal=Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society
|volume=31 |issue=5
|pages=1607
|bibcode=1999BAAS...31.1607T
}}
External links
- [http://www.tayabeixo.org/biografias/pismis.htm Biography] {{in lang|es}}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20160303203115/http://www.matokulu.com/index.php/paris-pm.html?start=1 Bülent Uyar on Paris Pişmiş] {{in lang|tr}}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20160305105550/http://www.ispanyol.com/paris_pismis/paris_pismis.asp İspanyol.com] {{in lang|tr}}
- [https://sandandstars.co.za/paris-pismis-and-her-catalogue-of-open-clusters/ Web page about Pişmiş catalogue of star clusters]
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Category:20th-century astronomers
Category:Mexican people of Armenian descent
Category:Scientists from Istanbul
Category:Turkish people of Armenian descent
Category:Turkish women academics
Category:Academic staff of the National Autonomous University of Mexico