Arthur Hoag

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 worked at the Naval Ordnance Laboratory, was director of the stellar division of Kitt Peak National Observatory and later the director of Lowell Observatory from 1977-1986. He was also one of the founders of the dark-sky movement. Early life and education

Hoag 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 Wylma Wood Hoag. He had two sisters, Mary Alice (born 1922) and Elizabeth Ruth (born 1919).