Frank Hagar Bigelow
   HOME

TheInfoList



OR:

Frank Hagar Bigelow (August 28, 1851 in Concord, Massachusetts – March 2, 1924) was a United States scientist.


Biography

Bigelow's mother took an interest in astronomy, and her involvement caught his interest. Bigelow was educated at the primary and high school in Concord, in the
Boston Latin School The Boston Latin School is a public exam school in Boston, Massachusetts. It was established on April 23, 1635, making it both the oldest public school in the British America and the oldest existing school in the United States. Its curriculum f ...
, Harvard College (graduated 1873), and at the Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and entered orders. For some years he was assistant astronomer in the
Argentine National Observatory The Argentine National Observatory, today the Astronomical Observatory of Córdoba, was founded on 24 October 1871, by Argentine president Domingo F. Sarmiento and the North American astronomer Benjamin Apthorp Gould. History Its creation was t ...
in Cordoba. This service (1873–76; 1881–83) was interrupted for his theological studies, and for the short time (1880–81) after entering orders he was a rector in
Natick, Massachusetts Natick ( ) is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. It is near the center of the MetroWest region of Massachusetts, with a population of 37,006 at the 2020 census. west of Boston, Natick is part of the Greater Boston area. ...
. Later he was professor of mathematics in Racine College, Wisconsin, assistant in the National Almanac office in Washington, D.C., and in 1891 he became professor of meteorology in the United States Weather Bureau in Washington. He was also an assistant rector of St. John's Church in Washington.


Work

His name is especially associated with an instrument for the photographic record of the transit of stars and with some novel studies by which the solar corona, the aurora, and terrestrial magnetism are shown to be associated. The theories met with a favorable reception in scientific circles.


Writing

He edited the ''Monthly Weather Review'' (1909–10). He published many articles on the subjects of his work and a monograph on the “Solar Corona,” published by the Smithsonian Institution (1889). His later writings were devoted to an isolated effort to reform meteorology through his publications. This bore little or no fruit.


Notes


References

*


External links

* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Bigelow, Frank Hagar 1851 births 1924 deaths 19th-century American Episcopal priests American astronomers American meteorologists Harvard College alumni Boston Latin School alumni 20th-century American Episcopal priests