James Gordon MacGregor

James Gordon MacGregor, FRS FRSE LLD (31 March 1852 in Halifax, Colony of Nova Scotia, British North America – 21 May 1913 in Edinburgh) was a Canadian physicist.

He was educated there at the Free Church Academy in Halifax going on to study at Dalhousie University, where he graduated with an MA.

He returned to Nova Scotia to lecture in physics for one academic year (1876/1877) at his alma mater, Dalhousie University.

His proposers were Peter Guthrie Tait, Alexander Crum Brown, John Hutton Balfour and Edmund Albert Letts.

[2] In 1901 he returned to Britain when he succeeded to Peter Guthrie Tait's chair of natural philosophy at the University of Edinburgh.

MacGregor's house at 24 Dalrymple Crescent, Edinburgh
The grave of James Gordon MacGregor, Morningside Cemetery, Edinburgh