"Hoag's Object" Arthur Hoag Hand Signed 3X4 Card Todd Mueller COA

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"Hoag's Object" Arthur Hoag Hand Signed 3X4 Card. This item is certified authentic by Todd Mueller Autographs and comes with their Certificate of Authenticity.
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Arthur Allen Hoag
(January 28, 1921 - July 17, 1999) was an
American
astronomer
most famous for his discovery of
Hoag's Object
, a type of
ring galaxy
in 1950. He was born January 28, 1921, in Ann Arbor,
Michigan
. The son of Lynne Arthur Hoag (
Harvard Medical School
,
Cornell
, and
University of Michigan
faculty member) and wife Wylma Wood Hoag. He had two sisters, Mary Alice (born 1922) and Elizabeth Ruth (born 1919), a son named Tom and a daughter named Stefanie. His mother and sister Mary (aged 3) died on June 1, 1926, when the
Washington Irving
was rammed by an oil barge and sunk on the
North River
.
His interest in astronomy started early on. In 1942 he graduated with a degree in physics from
Brown University
. Upon graduation he went to work at the
Naval Ordnance Laboratory
. He received his
Ph.D.
in Astronomy from
Harvard
in 1953 under
Bart Bok
. In 1955, he moved to Arizona to become the director of the
Flagstaff Station
of the
USNO
where he worked on several research programs.
In 1966, he was appointed director of the stellar division of
Kitt Peak National Observatory
(KPNO), where he helped develop the 4-meter
Nicholas U. Mayall Telescope
. In 1977, he became director of the
Lowell Observatory
in Flagstaff, Arizona. He was noted for his work in
photoelectric
and
photographic
photometry
. Hoag also developed astronomical sites and instruments, and researched
quasi-stellar objects
. He retired as director of the Lowell Observatory in 1986. He died on July 17, 1999, in
Tucson, Arizona
.