William Gammie Ogg

Sir William Gammie Ogg FRSE LLD (1891–1979) was a Scottish horticultural scientist and Director of Rothamsted Experimental Station[1][2][3]

Life

He was born at Craigbank Farm in Peterculter near Aberdeen, Scotland on 2 November 1891 the son of James Ogg and his wife, Janet Gammie. He was educated at Robert Gordon's College in Aberdeen then studied Science at the University of Aberdeen specialising in Chemistry. He graduated MA in 1912 then took a further degree in Agriculture gaining a BSc in 1913.

In the First World War he worked as a chemist at the explosives factory at Oldbury and at Greetland in Yorkshire. After the war, in 1924, he began working as an Advisory Officer at the East Of Scotland College of Agriculture. In 1925 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Alexander Lauder, Sir James Walker, George Barger and Ralph Allan Sampson.[4]

In 1930, he went to the Macaulay Institute in Aberdeen as its Director. In 1943 he moved to Rothamsted Experimental Station. His colleagues there included Douglas M. C. MacEwan FRSE.

He was knighted by King George VI in 1949.

He served as President of the Chemistry Institute of Great Britain 1953 to 1955.

He retired in 1958 and died at Arnhall in Edzell, Angus on 25 September 1979. He is buried in Edzell Churchyard.

Family

In 1922 he married Helen Hilbert.

References
  1. "The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/31512. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  2. Ogg, W. G.; Ainsworth, G. C.; Cuthbertson, D. P.; Scott-Watson, J. (1953). "Discussion on Organic Manures and Fertilizers and the Production and Composition of Food for Man and Animals". Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine. 46 (9): 791–798. doi:10.1177/003591575304600912. PMC 1918656. PMID 13100425.
  3. Ogg, W. G. (1947). "Soils and health". Advancement of Science. 4 (15): 265–272. PMID 20265515.
  4. 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 24 June 2017.


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