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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Raymond Smith Dugan has received more than 17,292 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Raymond Smith Dugan is the 287th most popular astronomer (down from 278th in 2019), the 4,412th most popular biography from United States (down from 4,103rd in 2019) and the 55th most popular American Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Raymond Smith Dugan ranks 287 out of 531. Before him are Liisi Oterma, Heikki A. Alikoski, John Machin, Frank Watson Dyson, André-Louis Danjon, and Benjamin Baillaud. After him are Henri-Alexandre Deslandres, Otto Lesser, Hermann von Struve, Aleksander Wolszczan, Christen Sørensen Longomontanus, and Andronicus of Cyrrhus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1878, Raymond Smith Dugan ranks 127. Before him are Anna Coleman Ladd, Charles Dvorak, Emmy Destinn, Chen Jiongming, Ioannis Rallis, and Massimo Bontempelli. After him are Oton Župančič, Karl Hofer, Konstantinos Logothetopoulos, Chen Qimei, Maxie Long, and Sergio Osmeña. Among people deceased in 1940, Raymond Smith Dugan ranks 106. Before him are Mikhail Koshkin, Janusz Kusociński, Ernst Weiss, Janina Lewandowska, Tom Mix, and Phoebus Levene. After him are Silvestre Revueltas, Fanny Brate, Krishna Raja Wadiyar IV, Mikhail Koltsov, Umberto Caligaris, and Maciej Rataj.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Raymond Smith Dugan ranks 4,412 out of 18,182. Before him are Nelson A. Miles (1839), Mae Marsh (1894), Jim Gray (1944), George C. Homans (1910), W. S. Van Dyke (1889), and Charles Koch (1935). After him are Elihu Yale (1649), David Bushnell (1742), Paul Chambers (1935), Mary Edwards Walker (1832), Todd Rundgren (1948), and Charles Fort (1874).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In United States

Among astronomers born in United States, Raymond Smith Dugan ranks 55. Before him are Alvan Graham Clark (1832), Benjamin Apthorp Gould (1824), Charles T. Kowal (1940), Antonia Maury (1866), Horace Parnell Tuttle (1837), and Lewis Boss (1846). After him are Allan Sandage (1926), Adam Riess (1969), Carl Keenan Seyfert (1911), Daniel Kirkwood (1814), Charles Dillon Perrine (1867), and Alvan Clark (1804).

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