Biographical entry Boas, Isaac Herbert (1878 - 1955)

Summary

Isaac Herbert Boas was Chief of the Division of Forest Products, CSIR 1929-44.

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, Royal Australian Chemical Institute 1952. Commemorated by University of Melbourne's Boas Memorial Lectures for secondary school students, inaugurated 1961.

Archival resources

Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science

• 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

Book Sections

• Rosenthal, Newman, 'Boas, Isaac Herbert (1878-1955), scientist', in Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle (eds), Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 7, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1979, pp. 332-333. Also available at 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), vol. 48, Oct, 1963. Details

Online Resources

• '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
• National Library of Australia, 'Boas, I H', Trove, National Library of Australia and the Australian National Maritime Museum Darling Harbour, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-557979. 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/scripts/tia-dynindex.php3?EID=P000242. Details