Paris PiÅŸmiÅŸ

Paris Maria Pismis (originally Mari Sukiasyan (Armenian Մարի Սուքիասյան ); born January 30, 1911 in Constantine Opel (Ottoman Empire); † August 1, 1999 in Mexico City), was an astronomer of Armenian descent.

From 1940 until her death she was working in Mexico. Paris Pismis was the first woman who has graduated from the Faculty of Science of Istanbul University and studied astronomy at Harvard. 24 star clusters have been (also abbreviated Pis ) named among other things for her - Pismis 1 to Pismis 24 These discoveries of 1959 she made ​​on Schmidt plates that had been taken at the observatory Tonantzintla ( in Puebla ), the Schmidt telescope them for their observations used. The star clusters Pismis 6, which is also well known under the name NGC 2645, had first discovered already in 1834 John Herschel.

In addition, Paris Pismis recognized in 1959 regardless of Sawyer Hogg, that NGC 6380 ( Pismis 25) is a globular cluster and discovered in the same year the globular clusters Pismis 26, both also known as Tonantzintla 1 and 2 ( Sound 1, Sound 2).,