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FOR more than forty years Alexander Ogg, who died on February 23, had been by common consent the much-loved leader in his subject of physics in South Africa. A Scotsman by birth, he graduated in the University of Aberdeen under Prof. Kiven and afterwards obtained his doctorate as an 1851 Exhibitioner under iSTernst in Göttingen. His interest in thermodynamics arose during this period, and led to his well-known English translation of Planck‘s classic work on the subject. After this, he was for a time a lecturer at Aberdeen, which he left to become a master in the Royal Naval Engineering College, Devonport. In 1905 he migrated to South Africa to be the first occupant of the chair of physics and applied mathematics at Rhodes University College, Grahamstown. In so doing he became by no means the least illustrious of that band of Scottish teachers who have contributed so much to South Africa.
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SCHONLAND, B. Prof. Alexander Ogg. Nature 161, 633 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/161633a0
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