Frank Scott Hogg

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Frank Scott Hogg (June 26, 1904January 1, 1951) was born to Dr. James Scott Hogg and Ida Barberon in Preston, Ontario.

In 1921, Hogg received the second doctorate of astronomy at Harvard University where he pioneered the spectrophotometry of stars, and the study of spectra of comets. In September 1931, he married Helen Sawyer Hogg. During World War II, he developed a two-star sextant for air navigation. He was the head of the Department of Astronomy at the University of Toronto and director of the David Dunlap Observatory from 1946 until his death.

Hogg crater on the Moon is co-named for him and Arthur Hogg.

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