Arthur Robert Hogg

Arthur Robert Hogg (1903-1966) grew up in Melbourne, gaining his Bachelor and Masters of Science at RMIT and the University of Melbourne, respectively. In 1927 he worked at the Broken Hill Associated Smelters in Port Pirie, South Australia, where he worked as the assistant supervisor of research for two years. He then worked as an assistant, studying the electrical phenomena in the atmosphere. He then went on to study cosmic rays. On the eve of World War II, he was part of the Chemical Defense Section at the Munitions Support Laboratories. There he was working the study of respirators. He went back to the observatory in 1950, when he was awarded his PhD from the University of Melbourne.