Person
Boas, Isaac Herbert (1878 - 1955)
- Born
- 20 October 1878
Adelaide, South Australia, Australia - Died
- 16 October 1955
Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia - Occupation
- Chemist
Summary
Isaac Boas was Chief of the Division of Forest Products, CSIR 1929-1944.
Details
Born Adelaide, 20 October 1878. Died Melbourne, 16 October 1955. Educated University of Adelaide (BSc 1899). MSc, University of Western Australia 1914. Lecturer in geology and mineralogy, University of Adelaide 1901 and demonstrator in physics; lecturer in physics and chemistry, technical school, Charters Towers, Queensland 1904-05; lecturer in chemistry, Technical School, Perth 1906-19; officer-in-charge, projected Commonwealth Bureau of Science and Industry 1919-21; chief chemist, Michaelis, Hallenstein and Company, Melbourne 1921-28; chief, forest products division, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research 1928-44; retired to join the board of New Zealand Forest Products Ltd, but remained half time with CSIR until May 1945, working as a consultant and completing a book on the commercial timbers of Australia (1947). General president, Australian Chemical Institute 1951-2. Commemorated by University of Melbourne's Boas Memorial Lectures for secondary school students, inaugurated 1961.
Chronology
- 1944 -
- Career position - Member, Board of Directors, Commonwealth Experimental Building Station
- 1951 - 1952
- Career position - President, Australian Chemical Institute
Related entries
Archival resources
Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science
- Australian Botanists - Biographies, MS 064; Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science. Details
- Isaac Herbert Boas - Records, 1899 - 1968, MS 124; Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science. Details
State Library of Victoria, Australian Manuscripts Collection
- Isaac Herbert Boas - Records, 1900 - 1955; State Library of Victoria, Australian Manuscripts Collection. Details
Published resources
Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions
- McCarthy, Gavan; Smith, Ailie; Moje, Christine; Rigby, Rebecca, The Study of Australian Eucalypts, eScholarship Research Centre, 2013, http://www.eoas.info/eucalypts/index.html. Details
- Smith, Ailie, Adolph Basser Library Manuscript Collection, eScholarship Research Centre, 2012, http://www.eoas.info/basser_browse.html. Details
Books
- Bock, Geoff, The End was to Build Well: a Half-century of Australian Government Building Research (North Ryde, New South Wales: CSIRO, Division of Building, Construction and Engineering, 1995). Boas, I. H. pp.9, 176. Details
Book Sections
- Rosenthal, Newman, 'Boas, Isaac Herbert (1878-1955), scientist' in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds, vol. 7 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1979), pp. 332-333. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A070337b.htm. Details
Journal Articles
- Campbell, J. G., 'Papermaking and Australia's Scientific Contribution', Printing and Graphic Arts (Melbourne), 48 (October) (1963). Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q21506221. Details
- 'Boas, I H (1878-1955)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-557979. Details
Resource Sections
- 'Boas, Isaac Herbert - Ms 124', in Listing of Adolph Basser Library holdings, Australian Academy of Science, 1994, http://www.science.org.au/basser/manuscript-collection/ms124.html. Details
See also
- Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Technology in Australia 1788-1988, Online edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, 3 May 2000, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/tia/index_b.html. Details
McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 31 August 2023
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