UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO.

Press, Volume L, Issue 14886, 28 January 1914, Page 3

UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO.

NEW PROFESSOR OF PHYSICS. (TROU OUR OWN COBRESrONDENT.S LONDON, December 19. Mr Robert Jack, M.A., Ph.D., D.Sc, has been appointed to the Chair of Physics, University of Otago, Dunedin. Mr Jack is at present lecturer and examiner in physics, Queen's University, Belfast, and examiner in mathematics, Intermediate Education Board, Ireland, and Civil Service Commission, London. A graduate of Glasgow University, he took his B.Sc. with special distinction in physics, mathematics, and astronomy, and his M.A. with first-class honours in physics and He obtained the dcgTco of Ph.D. with, distinction at Gottingeu University, Germany. In addition to residing at the Gottingen University from 1906 to 1908, Professor Jack w.as at The Sorbonne. University of Paris, 1908-09, and ho has contributed many papers on research and original work to the Philosophical Society, Glasgow, the Proceedings of the Royal Society, Edinburgh, and the Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, Ihiblin. ■ It is interesting to add that as a studfTit he gained over £1000 in echol.arships. He assisted in the Mathematical Department of Glasgow University, and w.is De.ix nstrator in the Physics Department of the same University. He has been at Belfast since 1909. As a teacher, Mr Jack has been very successful, and he has an extensive experience of laboratory construction. T>r. P. Zeeman, Professor in the University of Amsterdam, and discoverer of tho Zeeman effect, declares that Mr Jack's three papers on this subject "give evidence o c very considerable skill in magnetical and optical work, and of jjreat capacity of sustained labour, also of much ingenuity in the discussion of tho results of experiments." Other distinguished professors who- have had opportunities of forming an opinion of Mr Jack's capabilities have been struck wirh the thoroughness in all branches of his work. They regard him as a painstaking and vuecessful teacher and a very good orgimiser. At Gtirtingen he worked under Professor Voight, and at Parrs under Professor Lippmann. He is thirty-five years of age, and unmarried. J