Prof Alexander David Ross FRSE FRAS FRSA FIP FAIP FEIS FEISA LLD (1883–1966) was a 20th-century Scots-born physicist, mathematician and astronomer living in Australia.
[1] He was twice President of the Western Australia Astronomical Society: 1915 to 1917 and 1950 to 1952, 33 years apart.
He was born in Glasgow on 7 September 1883 the son of David Ross DD, rector of the Church of Scotland Training College, and his wife Marion Johnston.
His proposers were Andrew Gray, William Jack, George Chrystal, and Cargill Gilston Knott.
[6] In the Second World War he was Consultant Physicist to the Royal Australian Navy.