Cyril Hogarth

Cyril Alfred Hogarth (22 January 1924 – 6 November 2006)[1] was a British physicist and chairman of South Bucks District Council.

[2] A pioneer in the field of oxide semiconductors,[3] he was a professor, head of the physics department, and administrator at Brunel University London, where he worked for 31 years.

[3] That year, Hogarth's theoretical solution for determining the dependence of thermoelectric power of cadmium oxide on ambient oxygen pressure was published in Nature and in Philosophical Magazine.

[4] After earning his PhD, he lectured at Chelsea College of Science and Technology and the University of Reading, before spending some years at the Royal Radar Establishment.

[6] Cyril Hogarth was chairman of the Gerrards Cross Conservative Association and served as a district councillor in South Bucks for 20 years.