Raymond Smith Dugan
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Raymond Smith Dugan (May 30 1878 – August 31 1940) was an American astronomer and a graduate of Amherst College in Massachusetts (1899).
He did his Masters Degree at Amherst College in 1902, and then did his Ph.D. dissertation in 1905 at the Landessternwarte Heidelberg-Königstuhl (Königstuhl Observatory, near Heidelberg) at the University of Heildelberg [1] (http://www.lsw.uni-heidelberg.de/personnel/diss.phtml).
At the time the observatory at Heidelberg was a center of asteroid discovery under Max Wolf, and during his time there Dugan discovered 16 asteroids, including notably 511 Davida.
He was at Princeton University as an instructor (1905 – 1908), assistant professor (1908 – 1920), and professor (1920 – ). Married Annette Rumford in 1909.
He co-wrote an influential two-volume textbook in 1927 with Henry Norris Russell and John Quincy Stewart: Astronomy: A Revision of Young’s Manual of Astronomy (Ginn & Co., Boston, 1926-27, 1938, 1945). This became the standard astronomy textbook for about two decades. There were two volumes: the first was The Solar System and the second was Astrophysics and Stellar Astronomy.
The asteroid 2772 Dugan was named in his honour.
External links
- Amherst College Class of 1899 (http://www.amherst.edu/~rjyanco/genealogy/acbiorecord/1899.html)
- List of Dissertations at the Landessternwarte Heidelberg-Königstuhl (http://www.lsw.uni-heidelberg.de/personnel/diss.phtml)de:Raymond Smith Dugan