In my thoughts
new Hugo as an undergraduate and postgraduate student at Glasgow University. I just wanted to include a group photo taken at my wedding in September 1979 in his memory. I have been off work for the past year and only received my IAU bulletin recently in a package of mail from Glasgow University. So I only found out a few days ago that Hugo had died in a motor cycle accident last year … a profound shock.
The photo includes several people from the Astronomy Department at the university back then. Hugo and Gordon Emslie standing at the back, then clockwise round the table Buffy (Gordon’s wife), me and the wife (Ian and Linda Walker), Mrs and Mrs Williamson and Prof and Mrs Roy.
The last time I saw Hugo was in 2001 when he was giving a lecture called “Dentist’s Polarimetry” - using backscattered polarised light to look at cosmic ‘cavities and fillings’ from behind. This was in honour of his postgrad supervisor Dr David Clarke, who was retiring from his post as Director of the Observatory at Glasgow University. There had been many years since our last meeting but the years rolled away as we brought ourselves up to date with each others lives. Hugo had lost none of that natural manner which made it very easy to get on with him, be open with him and enjoy being around him. For that he will be sorely missed.
Our thoughts are with his family.
Ian+Linda.