Biographical entry Boas, Walter Moritz (1904 - 1982)

Summary

Walter Boas was the Carnegie Lecturer and Senior Lecturer in Physical Metallurgy, University of Melbourne 1938-1947 and Head of the Tribophysics Division of CSIR/O 1949-1969.

Details

Born Berlin, 10 February 1904. Died Melbourne, 12 May 1982. Educated Technische Hochschule Berlin (Dip Engin 1928, Dr Ing 1930). Assistant research officer, physics section, Kaiser Wilhelm Institute für Metallforschung, Berlin-Dahlem 1928-32; assistant, physics department, University of Fribourg 1933-35; research officer, physics department, Technische Hochschule Zürich 1936-37; research associate, Royal Institution, London 1937-38; lecturer in metallurgy, University of Melbourne 1938-40; senior lecturer 1940-47; principal research officer, CSIR Division of Tribophysics 1947-49, chief 1949-69. Fellow, Australian Academy of Science 1954.

Related entries

Archival resources

Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science

• Walter Moritz Boas - Records, 1922 - 1965, MS 094; Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science. Details

Published resources

Encyclopedia of Australian Science Exhibitions

• Smith, Ailie, Adolph Basser Library Manuscript Collection, eScholarship Research Centre, 2012, http://www.eoas.info/basser_browse.html. Details

Journal Articles

• Clarebrough, L. M.; Head, A. K., 'Walter Boas 1904-1982', Historical Records of Australian Science, vol. 6, no. 4, 1987, pp. 507-517. Also available at http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/HR9870640507.htm. Details
• Flesch, Juliet and McPhee, Peter, '150 Years, 150 Stories: Walter Moritz Boas', Uni News, vol. 12, no. 5, 2003, p. 4. Details
• Rae, Ian D., 'Boas, Walter Moritz (1904-1982), Physicist', Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 17, 2007, pp. 117-118. Details

Online Resources

• 'Boas, Walter - Ms 94', in Listing of Adolph Basser Library holdings, Australian Academy of Science, 1994, http://www.science.org.au/basser/manuscript-collection/ms094.html. Details
• 'Boas, Walter Moritz', in Physics in Australia to 1945, R.W. Home, with the assistance of Paula J. Needham, Australian Science Archives Project, June 1995, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/physics/P000243p.htm. Details
• Clarebrough, L.M. and Head, A.K., 'Walter Boas 1904-1982', in Australian Academy of Science Biographical Memoirs, Australian Academy of Science, 2006, http://www.science.org.au/fellows/memoirs/boas.html. Details
• 'Boas, Walter Moritz', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1467787. Details
• Ward, C., 'Walter Moritz Boas [1904-1982]', in CSIROpedia, 2011, http://csiropedia.csiro.au/display/CSIROpedia/Boas%2C+Walter+Moritz. Details

See also

• Flesch, Juliet and McPhee, Peter, 150 years, 150 stories: brief biographies of one hundred and fifty remarkable people associated with the University of Melbourne, Department of History, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, 2003, 168 pp. Details
• Hyde, B. G. and Day, P, 'John Stuart Anderson', Historical Records of Australian Science, vol. 9, no. 2, 1992. Also available at http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/HR9920920127.htm. Details