Raymond Smith Dugan

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Minor planets discovered: 16<ref name="MPC-Discoverers" />
497 Iva 4 November 1902 Template:Small
503 Evelyn 19 January 1903 Template:Small
506 Marion 17 February 1903 Template:Small
507 Laodica 19 February 1903 Template:Small
508 Princetonia 20 April 1903 Template:Small
510 Mabella 20 May 1903 Template:Small
511 Davida 30 May 1903 Template:Small
516 Amherstia 20 September 1903 Template:Small
517 Edith 22 September 1903 Template:Small
518 Halawe 20 October 1903 Template:Small
519 Sylvania 20 October 1903 Template:Small
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523 Ada 27 January 1904 Template:Small
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Raymond Smith Dugan (May 30, 1878 – August 31, 1940) was an American astronomer and discoverer of minor planets.<ref name="springer-Dugan" /> His parents were Jeremiah Welby and Mary Evelyn Smith and he was born in Montague in the U.S. state of Massachusetts.<ref name="Encyclopedia-of-Astronomers" />

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.<ref>Landessternwarte Dissertation List Template:Webarchive at www.lsw.uni-heidelberg.de</ref>

At the time, the observatory at Heidelberg was a center of asteroid discovery under Max Wolf. During Dugan's stay there, he discovered 16 asteroids between 1902 and 1904, notably including 511 Davida.<ref name="MPC-Discoverers" /><ref name="springer-Davida" />

He was employed by Princeton University as an instructor (1905–1908), assistant professor (1908–1920), and professor (1920—). He married Annette Rumford in 1909.

Dugan co-wrote an influential two-volume textbook in 1927 with Henry Norris Russell and John Quincy Stewart called 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.Template:Citation-needed There are two volumes: the first is The Solar System and the second is Astrophysics and Stellar Astronomy.

Dugan was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1931.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> The lunar crater Dugan and the main-belt asteroid 2772 Dugan are named in his honour.<ref name="springer-Dugan" />

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