Biographical entry Hogg, Arthur Robert (1903 - 1966)

Summary

Arthur Robert Hogg was an assistant at the Mount Stromlo Observatory 1921-1961 and Deputy Director 1961-1966. His advice to B.J. Bok, then director of Mount Stromlo Observatory, on the selection of possible sites for a major telescope in Australia resulted in the choice of Siding Spring as the site for the Anglo-Australian 150-inch telescope.

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Events

1923

Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc) completed at the University of Melbourne

1925

Education - Master of Science (MSc) completed at the University of Melbourne

1927 - 1929

Career position - Assistant Supervisor of Research at Broken Hill Associated Smelters in Port Pirie, South Australia

1929 - 1961

Career position - Assistant at Mount Stromlo Observatory

1940 - 1946

Career position - Physicist at the Munitions Supply Laboratories in Maribyrnong Victoria

1947 - 1966

Career position - Convenor of the National Committee on Astronomy

1950

Education - Doctor of Science (DSc) received from the University of Melbourne

1954

Career position - President of the Royal Society of Canberra

1954

Career position - Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (FAA)

1961 - 1964

Career position - President of the Commission 6 on Astronomical Telegrams, International Astronomical Union

1961 - 1966

Career position - Deputy Director of Mount Stromlo Observatory

1964

Career position - Chairman of the Australian Institute of Physics, Australian Capital Territory branch

Related entries

Archival resources

Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science

• Arthur Robert Hogg - Records, 1926 - 1964, MS 63; Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science. Details

National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection

• Arthur Robert Hogg - Records, 1926 - 1965, MS 3680; National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection. Details

Published resources

Journal Articles

• Gascoigne, S. C. B., 'Arthur Robert Hogg', Records of the Australian Academy of Science, vol. 1, no. 3, 1968, pp. 58-70. Also available at http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/HR9680130058.htm. Details

Online Resources

• 'Hogg, Arthur Robert', in Physics in Australia to 1945, R.W. Home, with the assistance of Paula J. Needham, Australian Science Archives Project, June 1995, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/physics/P000501p.htm. Details
• 'Hogg, Arthur Robert', in The Giant's Eye: the Optical Munitions Exhibition, A Bright Sparcs Exhibition, Australian Science Archives Project, 1997, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/exhib/omp/people/hogg.htm. Details
• Gascoigne, S. C. B., 'Arthur Robert Hogg 1903-1966', in Australian Academy of Science Biographical Memoirs, Australian Academy of Science, 2006, http://www.science.org.au/fellows/memoirs/hogg.html. Details
• National Library of Australia, 'Hogg, Arthur Robert', Trove, National Library of Australia and the Australian National Maritime Museum Darling Harbour, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1475734. Details

See also

• Sherratt, Tim; Condé, Anne-Marie, A Wartime Observatory Observed - the Mount Stromlo Community, 1940-1945, Australian Science Archives Project, Canberra, 1994, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/pubs/articles/tps/tps_stromlo_draft.htm. Details