Background
Bigelow, Frank Hagar was born on August 28, 1851 in Concord, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Francis Edwin and Ann (Hagar) Bigelow.
Bigelow, Frank Hagar was born on August 28, 1851 in Concord, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Francis Edwin and Ann (Hagar) Bigelow.
Bachelor of Arts, Harvard, 1873, Master of Arts, 1880. Bachelor of Divinity, Episcopal Theological School, Cambridge, 1880. (honorary Doctor of Humane Letters, Columbian (now George Washington University, 1899.
Astronomer at Cordoba Observatory, Argentine Republic, 1873-1876 and 1881-1883. Took part in Doctor Bachelor of Arts Gould’s exploration of the Southern heavens. Professor mathematics, Racine College, 1884-1889.
Assistant Nautical Almanac Office, 1889-1891, and member United States Eclipse Expedition to West. Africa, 1889.
Newberry, South Carolina., 1900, Spain, 1905. Professor meteorology, United States Weather Bureau, 1891-1910.
Professor solar physics, George Washington University, 1894-1910. Professor meteorology, Oficina Meteorologica, Cordoba, Argentina, 1910-1921.
Director Pilar Solar and Magnetic Observatory, 1915-1921.
Rector, Natick, Massachusetts, 1880-1881. Chaplain, Racine, Wisconsin, 1885-1889. Assistant minister Saint John's Church, Washington, 1891-1910.
Was chief climatological division United States Weather Bureau.
Also in charge of researches into the law of evaporation at the Salton Sea and in the United States generally. Then retired. Author of articles and monographs on meteorology, solar physics, meteorological treatise on Circulation and Radiation of the Atmospheres of the Earth and Sun.
Treatise on the Sun’s Radiation and other solar phenomena.
Member United States Eclipse Expedition
Married Mary East. Spalding, October 6, 1881.