P000242 revised AU-VU:EOAS Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation

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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 1993-10-20 human Gavan McCarthy; Ken McInnes updated 2026-02-02 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P000242b.htm person Boas Isaac Herbert FACI AACR2 20 October 1878 16 October 1955 Place of Birth Adelaide, South Australia, Australia Place of Death Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia Chemist Isaac Boas was Chief of the Division of Forest Products, CSIR 1928-1944. His book "The commercial timbers of Australia : their properties and uses" (1947) is one of his lasting legacies. In his early career, in Western Australia, he pioneered the processes of making paper from Australian hardwoods. He is commemorated by the University of Melbourne's Boas Memorial Lectures for secondary school students, inaugurated 1961. 1899 1899 Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc), University of Adelaide 1901 Career position - Lecturer in geology and mineralogy, and demonstrator in physics, University of Adelaide 1904 1905 Career position - Lecturer in physics and chemistry, Technical school, Charters Towers, Queensland 1906 1919 Career position - Lecturer in chemistry, Perth Technical School, Western Australia [where he researched making paper from Australian hardwoods.] 1914 1914 Education - Master of Science (MSc), University of Western Australia 1917 1917 Career event - Foundation member, Australian Chemical Institute 1919 1921 Career position - Officer-in-charge, projected Commonwealth Bureau of Science and Industry 1921 1921 Publication - "Wood Waste" Bulletin No.19, Institute of Science and Industry 1921 1928 Career position - Chief chemist, Michaelis, Hallenstein and Company, Melbourne 1928 1944 Career position - Chief, Forest products division, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research 1932 1932 Career event - Elected Member (Chemistry), Australian National Research Council 1944 Career position - Board member, New Zealand Forest Products Ltd 1944 Career position - Member, Board of Directors, Commonwealth Experimental Building Station 1944 1944 Award - Fellow, Australian Chemical Institute (FACI) 1944 1944 Life event - Retired 1944 1945 Career position - Part-time consultant, Forest products division, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research 1947 1947 Publication - "The commercial timbers of Australia : their properties and uses" 1951 1952 Career position - President, Australian Chemical Institute Benjamin, Louis Reginald Samuel (1892 - 1970)

Benjamin and Boas experimented in the production of pulp and paper from Australian hardwoods in the 1920s.

 Australian National Research Council (ANRC) (1919 - 1955)

Member (Chemistry) 1932 -

 Australian Chemical Institute (ACI) (1917 - 1953)

President 1951 - 1952; Foundation member 1917; Fellow 1944

 CSIR/O Division of Forest Products (mark I), Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (1928 - 1971)

Chief 1928 - 1944

 The University of Adelaide (1874 - 2026)

Lecturer in geology and mineralogy 1901 -

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 Boas, I H (1878-1955)

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 'Boas, Isaac Herbert', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Boas, Isaac Herbert Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Thesis: Writing about Women in the History of Science: a Study of Women at the CSIR 1930-1950 Alvarez, Amaya Jane Writing about Women in the History of Science: a Study of Women at the CSIR 1930-1950 Melbourne University of Melbourne 1993 Book: CSIRO research for Australia: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization CSIRO CSIRO research for Australia: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization Canberra Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Organisation 1962 Book: The End was to Build Well: a Half-century of Australian Government Building Research 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 Resource Section: Boas, Isaac Herbert - Ms 124 Boas, Isaac Herbert - Ms 124 Australian Academy of Science 1994 Listing of Adolph Basser Library holdings Journal Article: Papermaking and Australia's Scientific Contribution Campbell, J. G. Papermaking and Australia's Scientific Contribution 1963 Printing and Graphic Arts (Melbourne) 48 October Book Section: Boas, Isaac Herbert (1878-1955), scientist Rosenthal, Newman Boas, Isaac Herbert (1878-1955), scientist Melbourne Melbourne University Press 1979 Australian dictionary of biography, volume 7: 1891 - 1939 A-Ch Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle 332-333 Report: Wood waste Boas, I. H. [Isaac Herbert] Wood waste Melbourne Institute of Science and Industry 1921 Book: The commercial timbers of Australia : their properties and uses Boas, Isaac Herbert The commercial timbers of Australia : their properties and uses Council for Scientific and Industrial Research 1947 Book: The Origins of CSIRO: Science and the Commonwealth Government, 1901-1926 Currie, George; Graham, John The Origins of CSIRO: Science and the Commonwealth Government, 1901-1926 Melbourne CSIRO 1966 Resource: Technology in Australia 1788-1988 Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering Technology in Australia 1788-1988 Online Melbourne Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre 2000 Isaac Herbert Boas - Records State Library of Victoria, Australian Manuscripts Collection Isaac Herbert Boas - Records 1900 - 1955 Correspondence, curriculum vitae, articles, press cuttings and photographs c1900-55, including 'I'll eat my hat - sketches in the life of I.H. Boas' by Elizabeth Boas n.d. (104 pages); 'I.H. Boas, M.Sc. Establishment of newsprint industry in Australia' a folder of articles, correspondence and newspaper cuttings on this subject. Isaac Herbert Boas - Records Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science Isaac Herbert Boas - Records MS 124 1899 - 1968 MSc thesis 1915; diary and report of overseas trip 1919; autobiographical manuscripts, typescripts and photographs 1948-67; correspondence 1899-1921, 1928, 1935, 1953-4, 1961-68; notebooks and writings 1930s-68; reprints on pulp and paper 1911-48 [30 cm, MS 124]. 0.3 m, 1 box Photographs Australian Botanists - Biographies Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science Australian Botanists - Biographies MS 064 Hunt Institute Biographies. Short biographies, averaging 2 pages, of Australian botanists, botanical collectors or artists. 0.24 m, 3 boxes