Arthur Hoag

Arthur Hoag
Arthur Hoag
Born	28 January 1921; Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
Died	17 July 1999 (aged 78); Tucson, Arizona, United States
Education	Brown University (B.A., 1942); Harvard (Ph.D., 1953);

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.

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