- Jay U. Gunter
June U. Gunter (
15 January 1911 -14 November 1994 ), better known as Jay U. Gunter or J. U. Gunter, was an American pathologist and amateur astronomer. cite web | url= http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-iarticle_query?1995MPBu...22....1B&data_type=PDF_HIGH&whole_paper=YES&type=PRINTER&filetype=.pdf | title=Minor Planet Bulletin | publisher= Minor Planet Section of the ALPO | date=January-March 1995 | accessdate=2007-08-08]Life and professional career
Jay U. Gunter was born in Sanford,
North Carolina . In 1931 he graduated from theUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and then continued here and at theJefferson Medical College inPhiladelphia with his medical education. He received his degree in 1938. TheSecond World War he spent in the Medical Corps of theUnited States Navy . From 1947 he worked as Pathologist and Director of Laboratories, Watts Hospital in Durham, North Carolina. He was also a visiting Professor of Pathology at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine. ]Amateur astronomy
In 1976 Jay U. Gunter retired and the rest of his life he devoted to amateur astronomy. His main field of study and observation were
asteroid s. He founded and for more than 15 years published the popular magazine "Tonight's Asteroids". It was a bimonthly periodical, distributed free, containing finding charts and news from the world of asteroid studies. It was widely acknowledged for bringing attention of many amateur astronomers to asteroid observation. ] In 1980 themain belt asteroid2136 Jugta was named in his honour (the name being anacronym of the first letters of his and his magazine's names). [cite web | title=2136 Jugta at JPL Small-Body Database Browser | url= http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=Jugta;orb=1 | accessdate=2007-08-08] In 1983 he received the Amateur Achievement Award of theAstronomical Society of the Pacific [cite web | url= http://www.astrosociety.org/membership/awards/pastamateur.html | accessdate=2007-08-08 | title=Amateur Achievement Award winners | publisher=Astronomical Society of the Pacific] and in 1989 the Caroline Herschel Award of theWestern Amateur Astronomer Society . ]ee also
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NAME = Gunter, Jay U.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES = Gunter, June U.; Gunter, J. U.
SHORT DESCRIPTION = 20th century American doctor and amateur astronomer
DATE OF BIRTH =15 January 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH = Sanford,North Carolina ,United States
DATE OF DEATH =14 November 1994
PLACE OF DEATH =
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