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John Lowry Dobson (14 September 1915 – 15 January 2014) was an American amateur astronomer and is best known for the Dobsonian telescope, a portable, low-cost Newtonian reflector telescope. [3] He was also known for his efforts to promote awareness of astronomy (and his unorthodox views of physical cosmology ) through public lectures ...
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 manufacture from readily available components to create a large ...
John Dobson (9 November 1787 – 8 January 1865) was a 19th-century English neoclassical architect.During his life, he was the most noted architect in Northern England.He designed more than 50 churches and 100 private houses, but he is best known for designing Newcastle railway station and his work with Richard Grainger developing the neoclassical centre of Newcastle.
John Dobson is a South African rugby union coach, ... Dobson once again guided Western Province to the final of the Vodacom Cup in 2015, ...
John Dobson (amateur astronomer) (1915–2014), popularizer of astronomy and the Dobsonian telescope; John Dobson (Canadian politician) (1824–1907), Canadian senator; John Dobson (Northern Ireland politician) (1929–2009), Northern Irish politician; John Dobson (priest) (born 1964), British priest and Dean of Ripon
John Dodson (born September 26, 1984) is an American mixed martial artist and bare-knuckle boxer who competes in the flyweight divisions of Rizin Fighting Federation and Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship, where in the latter promotion, he is the inaugural and current BKFC Flyweight Champion. A professional mixed martial arts competitor since ...
John Richard Dobson DL (born 16 November 1964) is a British Church of England priest. Since 2014, he has been the dean of Ripon . Previously, he was a curate in County Durham and a vicar in Darlington .
John Robert Dopson, Jr. (born July 14, 1963) is a former professional baseball player who pitched in the Major Leagues during 1985, then from 1988 to 1994. He was the last pitcher to balk four times in one game, a feat he achieved on June 13, 1989. [ 1 ]