Catalogue Number: 1229 Dr Jack Pettigrew, Acting Director of the the National Vision Resarch Institute (NVRI) 1980 to 1981 Category: Photographs Sub-Category: Photograph People and events Year Of Publication/Manufacture: c 1980 Time Period: 1940 to 1999 Description Of Item: Colour photograph of Dr Jack Pettigrew, Acting Director of the National Vision Resarch Institute (NVRI) 1980 to 1981, 10.0 x 15.3 cm. Historical Significance: Dr Jack Pettigrew took up appointment as Principal Research Fellow in the NVRI in August 1979 and was Acting Director from 1980, after the Foundation Director Dr Mitchell returned to Dalhousie University, until 1981. He left to take a chair in physiology at the University of Queensland where he established the Centre for Sight, Touch and Hearing and was subsequently elected an FRS. The NVRI is the autonomous research arm of the Victorian College of Optometry How Acquired: Record of VCO Condition: Good Location: Archive office. South wall. Cube 5 Album 2 |