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John Dobson

1915 - 2014

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John Lowry Dobson (14 September 1915 – 15 January 2014) was an American amateur astronomer and is best known for the Dobsonian telescope, a portable, low-cost Newtonian reflector telescope. He was also known for his efforts to promote awareness of astronomy (and his unorthodox views of physical cosmology) through public lectures including his performances of "sidewalk astronomy". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Dobson has received more than 16,741 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). John Dobson is the 458th most popular astronomer (down from 429th in 2019), the 858th most popular biography from China (down from 760th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Chinese Astronomer.

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  • 16

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  • 4.38

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, John Dobson ranks 458 out of 531. Before him are Stephen P. Synnott, William Frederick Denning, Benjamin Banneker, Guillermo Haro, Lipót Schulhof, and Margaret Lindsay Huggins. After him are Mary Watson Whitney, David Todd Wilkinson, William Robert Brooks, Margaret Geller, William de Wiveleslie Abney, and David H. Levy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1915, John Dobson ranks 212. Before him are David Diamond, Gary Merrill, Dario Mangiarotti, Melih Cevdet Anday, Georgy Tovstonogov, and Josef Zeman. After him are Jóhann Hafstein, Patricia Morison, Billy Strayhorn, Jean Parker, Earl Wild, and Ismat Chughtai. Among people deceased in 2014, John Dobson ranks 355. Before him are Željko Šturanović, Ralph Giordano, Mel Patton, Win Tin, Geoffrey Holder, and Nina Andrycz. After him are Rosemary Murphy, Étienne Mourrut, Isabelle Collin Dufresne, Alice Coachman, Rudolph Rummel, and Helen Johns.

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In China

Among people born in China, John Dobson ranks 858 out of 1,392. Before him are Paul Yü Pin (1901), Liang Guanglie (1940), You Xie (1958), Kris Wu (1990), Li Han-hsiang (1926), and Dilraba Dilmurat (1992). After him are Huang Xiaoming (1977), Fang Fang (1955), Taylor Wang (1940), Paul Shan Kuo-hsi (1924), Hu Chunhua (1963), and Vivian Wu (1966).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In China

Among astronomers born in China, John Dobson ranks 4. Before him are Gan De (-400), Fang Lizhi (1936), and Jing Fang (-78).

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