Arthur Robert Hogg

Who was Arthur Robert Hogg?

Arthur Robert Hogg was an Australian physicist and astronomer.

He was born in Melbourne, Victoria, and was educated at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and at the University of Melbourne where he earned his B.Sc. in 1923 and M.S. in 1925. In 1927, he began working at the Broken Hill Associated Smelters in Port Pirie, South Australia, becoming the assistant supervisor of research, and he remained there until 1929. He then joined the Mount 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 of cosmic rays. In 1933 he was married to Irene Doris Tyson. 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 in Maribyrnong. There his work was focused on the study of respirators.