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Dr. Hogg's career highlights
- BORN
- Lowell, Massachusetts, August 1, 1905
- EDUCATION
Lowell Public Schools Mount Holyoke College A.B. (Magna cum Laude) 1926 Radcliffe College A.M. 1928 Radcliffe College Ph.D. 1931 - EMPLOYMENT
Dominion Astrophysical Observatory, Victoria, B. C. 1931-1935 Unpaid volunteer David Dunlap Observatory, University of Toronto 1935- Unpaid Volunteer 1935 First appointment 1936 Professor 1957-1974 Research Professor 1974-1976 Professor Emeritus 1976 Other Important Positions Mount Holyoke College 1940-1941 Acting Chairman, Astronomy Department United States National Science Foundation 1955-1956 Program Director for Astronomy - PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
o Took thousands of photographs of globular clusters to search for and study variable stars. Published more than 200 papers on this work. o Taught elementary astronomy for non-science students for almost thirty years. o Wrote column With the Stars in the Toronto Star for 30 years. o Popular book on astronomy The Stars Belong to Everyone published by Doubleday Canada in 1976. o Published several dozen articles on historical astronomy in the Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada. - IMPORTANT POSITIONS -- SOCIETIES AND ORGANIZATIONS
President American Association of Variable Star Observers 1939-1941 President International Astronomical Union
Subcommission, Variable Stars in Star Clusters1955-1961 President Royal Astronomical Society of Canada 1957-1959 President Physical Sciences section, Royal Society of Canada 1960-1961 President Royal Canadian Institute 1964 Councillor American Astronomical Society 1965-1968 Director Bell Telephone Company of Canada
(One of first two women)1968-1978 First President Canadian Astronomical Society 1971-1972 Honorary President Toronto Centre, Royal Astronomical Society of Canada 1972-1977 Honorary President Royal Astronomical Society of Canada 1977-1981 - HONOURS AND AWARDS
- HONORARY DEGREES
Fellow Royal Society of Canada
First woman in Physical Sciences Section1946 D.Sc. Mount Holyoke 1958 D.Sc. University of Waterloo 1962 D.Sc. McMaster University 1976 D.Sc. University of Toronto 1977 D. Litt. Saint Mary's University 1981 D.Sc. University of Lethbridge 1985 - AWARDS AND MEDALS
Annie J. Cannon Prize American Astronomical Society 1950 Rittenhouse Medal Rittenhouse Astronomical Society, Philadelphia 1967 Service Award Medal Royal Astronomical Society of Canada 1967 Radcliffe Graduate Achievement Medal Radcliffe College 1967 Centennial Medal Canada 1967 Medal of Service Order of Canada 1968 Companion Order of Canada 1976 Order of Merit City of Toronto 1985 Sandford Fleming Medal Royal Canadian Institute 1985 - OTHER HONOURS
IAU Colloquium No. 21, Variable Stars in Globular Clusters and in Related Systems, held in her honour on the 29th to 31st of August 1972 in Toronto Asteroid 2917 named Sawyer Hogg, 1984 Helen Sawyer Hogg Lectures, annual public lectures sponsored by the Canadian Astronomical Society and the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada Helen Sawyer Hogg Observatory, National Museum of Science and Technology in Ottawa, dedicated 1989 First scientist profiled in Scientists and Inventors series of books for elementary school children published by Copp Clark Pitman, 1991 Honorary Life Memberships in the Ontario Field Naturalists, the Royal Canadian Institute, the University Women's Club of Toronto, the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, and Science North, Sudbury.
Compiled by Tom Bolton, David Dunlap Observatory, Canada. June 1992
