Alexander Moffat (physicist)

Rev Prof Alexander Moffat FRSE LLD (d.1936) was a 20th-century Scottish minister and physicist. He was Professor of physics at the Christian College in Madras, India.

Life

He was born in Scotland around 1870. He studied both Divinity and Physics and graduated MA BSc.

In 1892 he arrived in India and began teaching physics at the Madras Christian College.[1]

In 1906 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were James Gordon MacGregor, William Peddie, Cargill Gilston Knott and John Gibson.[2]

He retired in 1927 and died in India on 4 June 1936.

Family

Little of his personal life is known other than that he was married.

References

The Autobiography of Y G Bonnell
Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0 902 198 84 X. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 6 October 2017.

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[1] The Autobiography of Y G Bonnell

[2] Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0 902 198 84 X. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 6 October 2017.