Catalogue Number: 408 Dr Jack Pettigrew, Acting Director of the National Vision Research Institute (NVRI) 1980 -1982 Category: Photographs Sub-Category: Photograph People and events Year Of Publication/Manufacture: c 1980 Time Period: 1940 to 1999 Place Of Publication/Manufacture: Melbourne Description Of Item: Black and white photograph 74 mm x 95 mm D of Dr Jack Pettigrew, Acting Director of the NVRI Historical Significance: Dr Jack Pettigrew took up appointment as Principal Research Fellow in the National Vision Research Institute in August 1979 and was Acting Director of the NVRI from 1980 after Dr Mitchell returned to Dalhousie University. He left in 1982 to take a chair in physiology at the University of Queensland where he established the Centre for Sight, Touch and Hearing and was subsquently elected an FRS. The NVRI is a research arm of the Victorian College of Optometry How Acquired: Record of VCO Condition: Fair Location: Archive office. South wall. Cube 5 Album 1 |