Dugald McQuistan

Prof Dugald Black McQuistan FRSE (1879-1946) was a Scottish mathematician.[1]

Life

He was born at Burnside in Rutherglen in Lanarkshire in central Scotland in 1879. He was probably the son of A. P. Stanley McQuistan, a chartered accountant. He was educated at Whitehill School in Glasgow. After studying Mathematics and Physics at Glasgow University he returned to Whitehill School to teach maths. From there he moved to teach at Allan Glen's School and then to the High School. He appears to have continued to live with his parents, then at 33 Renfield Street in Glasgow.[2]

In 1921 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Andrew Gray, George Alexander Gibson, John Gordon Gray and Robert Alexander Houston. [3]

In 1925 he became an Associate Professor of Natural Philosophy (Physics) at the Royal Technical College, Glasgow. He was given a full professorship in 1938 and retired in 1942.

He died on 2 April 1946.

References

  1. ↑ http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/Honours/FRSE/McQuistan.html
  2. ↑ Glasgow Post Office Directory 1910-11
  3. ↑ 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.
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