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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.At the time, the observatory at Heidelberg was a center of asteroid discovery under Max Wolf. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Raymond Smith Dugan has received more than 17,102 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Raymond Smith Dugan is the 333rd most popular astronomer (down from 287th in 2019), the 4,777th most popular biography from United States (down from 4,400th in 2019) and the 59th most popular American Astronomer.

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Over the past year Raymond Smith Dugan has had the most page views in the with 1,790 views, followed by Chinese (878), and Russian (832). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Chinese (462.82%), Basque (106.88%), and Armenian (82.61%)

Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Raymond Smith Dugan ranks 333 out of 644. Before him are Christine Kirch, Joseph Helffrich, Jing Fang, Alvan Clark, Andronicus of Cyrrhus, and Geminiano Montanari. After him are Elia Millosevich, Wilhelm Julius Foerster, Friedrich August Theodor Winnecke, Didier Queloz, Benjamin Markarian, and Lyudmila Zhuravleva.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1878, Raymond Smith Dugan ranks 139. Before him are Max Dehn, Agner Krarup Erlang, Karl Hofer, Glenn Curtiss, Gyula Krúdy, and Chen Qimei. After him are Oton Župančič, Ernst Hoppenberg, Siamanto, William Orpen, Artur Kapp, and Gaston Alibert. Among people deceased in 1940, Raymond Smith Dugan ranks 115. Before him are Jaan Teemant, Ernst Weiss, Tom Mix, Fanny Brate, Flora Finch, and Prince Aage, Count of Rosenborg. After him are Helmut Wick, Pierre Weiss, Krishna Raja Wadiyar IV, Smedley Butler, Ljubomir Davidović, and Charley Chase.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Raymond Smith Dugan ranks 4,777 out of 20,380. Before him are Thomas Jane (1969), Walter Piston (1894), William Perry (1927), David Hedison (1927), Ted Nugent (1948), and Winfield Scott Hancock (1824). After him are Mira Sorvino (1967), Lon L. Fuller (1902), Swoosie Kurtz (1944), John Mayer (1977), Huey P. Newton (1942), and Jon Hamm (1971).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In United States

Among astronomers born in United States, Raymond Smith Dugan ranks 59. Before him are Charles T. Kowal (1940), Albert George Wilson (1918), Antonia Maury (1866), Adam Riess (1969), Lewis Boss (1846), and Alvan Clark (1804). After him are Daniel Kirkwood (1814), Charles Dillon Perrine (1867), James W. Christy (1938), Frank Muller (1862), Eugene Parker (1927), and Herbert Friedman (1916).

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