Tom Johnson (astronomer)
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Tom Johnson (astronomer)
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Thomas Jasper Johnson or Tom Johnson was an American electronics engineer and astronomer who founded Celestron, a company which manufacturers telescopes, which revolutionized the amateur astronomy industry and hobby. Sky & Telescope magazine has called him "among the most important figures shaping the last half century of amateur astronomy." Johnson was born in 1923. He served as a military radar technician during World War II. In 1955, Johnson, an engineer, established Valor Electronics, which
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American astronomer
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Johnson_(astronomer)
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2012-03-28T12:15:55Z
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2024-09-01T22:01:27Z
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