José Luis Sersic, Argentine astronomer (Bella Vista, Corrientes Province 06 May 1933 – Carlos Paz, Cordoba Province 10 July 1993)
From Croatian descent
ACHIEVEMENTS
Authored 129 works with at least 10.000 citations
Enunciated Sersic profile law, a generalization of Vaucouleurs law
Influence of the atmospheric and instrumental dispersion on the brightness distribution in a galaxy. Bol. Asoc. Arg. Astron. 6:41, 1963
Codiscovered Sersic-Pastoriza nuclei and Sersic-Pastoriza galaxies
With M.G. Pastoriza. Peculiar Nuclei in Galaxies. PASP 77:287, 1966.
EPONYMY
Sersic index or parameter
Sersic magnitudes
Sersic function
Sersic surface
Sersic galaxies
Sersic spheroids