- Arthur Robert Hogg
Arthur Robert Hogg (25 November 1903–31 March 1966) was an
Australia nphysicist andastronomer .He was born in
Melbourne, Victoria , and attended school at theRoyal Melbourne Technical College . He received his advanced education at theUniversity of Melbourne where he earned hisB.Sc. in 1923 andM.S. in 1925. In 1927, he began working at the Broken Hill Associated Smelters inPort Pirie, South Australia , becoming the assistant supervisor of research, and he remained there until 1929. He then joined theMount Stromlo Observatory , then called the Commonwealth Solar Observatory, as an assistant and he remained associated with the observatory until his death in 1966.At Mount Stromlo, he took up the study of electrical phenomena in the
atmosphere , including ionization in the lower atmosphere. He then transitioned into the study ofcosmic ray s. In 1933 he was married to Irene Doris Tyson (known as Yandell). The couple had two sons, Robert Ernest Tremayne b 1936 and Garth Richard b. 1940 and a daughter, Elizabeth Irene born 1946.Beginning in 1940, near the start of
World War II , he worked as a physicist in the Chemical Defence Section at the Munitions Supply Laboratories inMaribyrnong . There his work was focused on the study of respirators. In 1944, he became secretary of the Physical and Meteorological Sub-Committee at the Lab.After the war he returned to work at observatory. He was awarded his
Ph.D. in 1950 from the University of Melbourne, based on his study of cosmic rays. He now began astronomical studies using photoelectric photometry and produced a series of papers on eclipsing variables,globular cluster s in the galaxy, and themagellanic clouds .He also became involved in the administration of the observatory and played a leading role in establishing the new convert|74|in|mm|sing=on telescope. Later he selected Siding Spring Mountain as the site of an convert|150|in|mm|sing=on telescope, located further from the encroaching growth near the older observatory. He was the deputy director of the Mount Stromlo Observatory from 1961 to 1966.
Hogg served in other positions of note, including as president of the Royal Society of Canberra in 1954; chairman of the Australian Institute of Physics, Australian Capital Territory branch, 1964, and the Commission 6 on Astronomical Telegrams of the
International Astronomical Union from 1961 until 1964.Awards and honors
* Fellow of the Australian Institute of Physics.
* Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, 1954.
* Hogg crater on theMoon was co-named for Arthur Hogg and Frank S. Hogg.External links
* [http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/aasmemoirs/hogg.htm Australian Academy of Science] extensive biography.
* [http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/physics/P000501p.htm Physicists in Australia] to 1945.
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