Physics in Australia to 1945 - PIGOT, Edward Francis

PHYSICS IN AUSTRALIA TO 1945

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PIGOT, Edward Francis

Born Dundrum House, Co. Dublin, Ireland, 18 September 1858; died Sydney 22 May 1929. Education, Trinity College Dublin (B.A. 1879; M.B., Ch.B. 1882), Jesuit college, Jersey 1892-95, and Jesuit college, Dublin, 1895-98. Lic. gynaecology, King's & Queen's College, Dublin, 1883. S.J. 1885. Physics teacher, Riverview College, Sydney, 1887-92. Jesuit mission, Shanghai, China, 1899. Assistant, Zo-se Observatory, China, 1900-07. Founder/director, Riverview College Observatory, Sydney, 1907-29.

Note on the new Wiechert seismometers at Riverview College, Sydney. Royal Society of New South Wales. Journal and Proceedings., 43 (1909), 388-393.
(With L.A. Cotton) Seismology in Australia. Proceedings of the 1st Pan-Pacific Science Conference, Hawaii, 1920, vol. 2, pp.409-410.

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