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Raymond Smith Dugan
Raymond Smith Dugan (May 30 1878 – August 31 1940) was an American astronomer and a graduate of Amherst College in Massachusetts (1899).
| 497 Iva | November 4 1902 |
| 503 Evelyn | January 19 1903 |
| 506 Marion | February 17 1903 |
| 507 Laodica | February 19 1903 |
| 508 Princetonia | April 20 1903 |
| 510 Mabella | May 20 1903 |
| 511 Davida | May 30 1903 |
| 516 Amherstia | September 20 1903 |
| 517 Edith | September 22 1903 |
| 518 Halawe | October 20 1903 |
| 519 Sylvania | October 20 1903 |
| 521 Brixia | January 10 1904 |
| 523 Ada | January 27 1904 |
| 533 Sara | April 19 1904 |
| 534 Nassovia | April 19 1904 |
| 535 Montague | May 7 1904 |
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].
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.
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