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About John Dobson
John Lowry Dobson was an American amateur astronomer and is best known for the Dobsonian telescope, a portable, low-cost Newtonian reflector telescope. He was also known for his efforts to promote awareness of astronomy through public lectures including his performances of "sidewalk astronomy". Dobson was also the co-founder of the amateur astronomical group, the San Francisco Sidewalk Astronomers.
Everything about John Dobson →- Occupation
- astronomer, inventor
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- September 14, 1915
- Died
- January 15, 2014