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John Dobson, Chinese-American astronomer and author, designed the Dobsonian telescope (died 2014)
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John Dobson (amateur astronomer)
American amateur astronomer
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…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Dobsonian telescope
Type of Newtonian telescope popularized by John Dobson
A Dobsonian telescope is an altazimuth-mounted Newtonian telescope design popularized by John Dobson in 1965 and credited with vastly increasing the size of telescopes available to amateur astronomers. Dobson's telescopes featured a simplified mechanical design that was easy to…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)