John Dobson

John Lowry Dobson (September 14, 1915 – January 15, 2014) was an American astronomer. He known for creating a design for a popular Newtonian telescope, named after him, the Dobsonian telescope.SB & F: Volume 43, Issues 5-6,  page 231, American Association for the Advancement of Science 2007

Dobson died at Burbank, California on January 15, 2014. He was 98.

References

Other websites
 Sidewalk Astronomers – This website includes John Dobson's official schedule.
 The San Francisco Sidewalk Astronomers 
 John Dobson of The Sidewalk Astronomers – Papers and articles written by John Dobson
 Dobson Space Telescope
 A Sidewalk Astronomer A film about Astronomy, Cosmology and John Dobson

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