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Raymond Smith Dugan

1878 - 1940

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Raymond Smith Dugan (May 30, 1878 – August 31, 1940) was an American astronomer and discoverer of minor planets. His parents were Jeremiah Welby and Mary Evelyn Smith and he was born in Montague in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. His undergraduate and Masters was from Amherst College in Massachusetts in 1899 and 1902. Dugan then received his Ph.D. dissertation in 1905 at the Landessternwarte Heidelberg-Königstuhl (Königstuhl Observatory, near Heidelberg) at the University of Heidelberg. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Raymond Smith Dugan is the 283rd most popular astronomer (up from 333rd in 2019), the 4,025th most popular biography from United States (up from 4,777th in 2019) and the 52nd most popular American Astronomer.

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Among astronomers, Raymond Smith Dugan ranks 283 out of 644. Before him are Marguerite Laugier, Giovanni Domenico Maraldi, André-Louis Danjon, Geminiano Montanari, Philibert Jacques Melotte, and Heber Doust Curtis. After him are Harold Spencer Jones, James W. Christy, Jean Fernel, Richard Martin West, Laurent Cassegrain, and Giorgio Abetti.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1878, Raymond Smith Dugan ranks 113. Before him are Jack Johnson, Otto Freundlich, Louis Marcoussis, Katie Johnson, Ulrich Graf, and Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin. After him are Lillian Moller Gilbreth, Pat McDonald, Heinrich XXIV, Prince Reuss of Greiz, Massimo Bontempelli, André Caplet, and Konstantinos Paspatis. Among people deceased in 1940, Raymond Smith Dugan ranks 92. Before him are Gaston Billotte, Ben Turpin, Henri Desgrange, Ernst Weiss, Gjergj Fishta, and Stanisław Bułak-Bałachowicz. After him are Umberto Caligaris, Jaan Teemant, Gunnar Höckert, Gyula Kellner, Abdelhamid Ben Badis, and Janusz Kusociński.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Raymond Smith Dugan ranks 4,025 out of 20,380. Before him are Aaron Paul (1979), Horace Greeley (1811), James Waddell Alexander II (1888), Edward Bellamy (1850), Richie Ginther (1930), and Jessie Royce Landis (1896). After him are Charles Whitman (1941), Lillian Moller Gilbreth (1878), Tony Robbins (1960), William Joyce (1906), Stewart Copeland (1952), and Kit Carson (1809).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In United States

Among astronomers born in United States, Raymond Smith Dugan ranks 52. Before him are Halton Arp (1927), Elizabeth Roemer (1929), Sandra Faber (1944), Daniel Kirkwood (1814), Antonia Maury (1866), and Heber Doust Curtis (1872). After him are James W. Christy (1938), Eugene Parker (1927), Frank Muller (1862), Charles Dillon Perrine (1867), Michael H. Hart (1932), and Frank Elmore Ross (1874).

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