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University of Toronto. Harvard University.
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Frank Hogg
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His supervisor there was Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin. During World 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.
During this time he pursued the observatory"s major research program to study the motions of faint stars in the line of sight.
The crater Hogg on the Moon is co-named for him and Arthur Hogg.
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January 1, 1951 (aged 46)