Paris Pişmiş

Marie Paris Pişmiş de Recillas (Armenian: Բարիզ Փիշմիշ, 30 January 1911 – 1 August 1999) was an Armenian-Mexican astronomer.

Pişmiş was born Mari Sukiasian (Armenian: Մարի Սուքիասեան) in 1911, in Ortaköy, Istanbul.

Later, she went to Harvard University where she met her future husband Félix Recillas, a Mexican mathematician.

[1] According to Dorrit Hoffleit, "she is the one person most influential in establishing Mexico’s importance in astronomical education and research".

[3] In 1998, she published an autobiography entitled "Reminiscences in the Life of Paris Pişmiş: a Woman Astronomer".

Hubble image of Pismis 24, one of the HII regions identified in her catalogue.