Person

Israel, George Cashmore (1914 - 1984)

Born: 19 September 1914
Invercargill, New Zealand
Died: 13 November 1984
Occupation: Physical chemist

Summary

George Israel was a lecturer, then senior lecturer in chemistry at the University of Tasmania from 1938 to 1949. He was also President of the Tasmanian Branch of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute 1947. After leaving Tasmania, he took up a senior academic chemistry position at the University of Hong Kong, followed by posts as Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Ghana; Professor at University College in London; and in the Chemistry Department of the University of Wales Institute of Science and Technology in Cardiff till 1976. Before coming to Australia Israel completed at Bachelor and Master of Science (BSc, MSc) at the University of Otago.

Published resources

Resources

'Israel, George Cashmore (1914-1984)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1474999. Details

Rosanne Walker

Created: 5 September 1997, Last modified: 4 February 2010

EOAS ID: biogs/P002947b.htm

Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is
Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
What do we mean by this?

Published by the Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology.
This Edition: 2024 February (Kooyang - Gariwerd calendar)
Reference: http://www.bom.gov.au/iwk/calendars/gariwerd.shtml#kooyang
For earlier editions see the Internet Archive at: https://web.archive.org/web/*/www.eoas.info

The Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation uses the Online Heritage Resource Manager (OHRM), a relational data curation and web publication system developed by the eScholarship Research Centre and its predecessors at the University of Melbourne 1999-2020. The OHRM has been maintained by Gavan McCarthy since 2020.

Cite this page: https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P002947b.htm

"... the rengitj, as a visible mark or imprint on the land, is characterised as a place of origin, the repository of all names, as well as a kind of mapped visual expression of the connection between people and places which is to be carried out in the temporal sequence of the journey." Fanca Tamisari (1998) 'Body, Vision and Movement: In the footprints of the ancestors'. Oceania 68(4) p260