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Boas, Walter Moritz (1904 - 1982)

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Born
10 February 1904
Berlin, Germany
Died
12 May 1982
Prahran, Victoria, Australia
Occupation
Metallurgist

Summary

Walter Boas was a metallurgist whose research interests included plastic deformation of alloys and the mechanical properties of organic crystals. He taught in the Department of Metallurgy at the University of Melbourne for ten years before joining the CSIR Section of Tribophysics. He was Chief of the Division of Tribophysics from 1949 to 1969. Boas was active in professional organisations, being a foundation Fellow of both the Australian Academy of Science and the Australian Institute of Physics, and President of the Australian Institute of Metals.

In 1984 the Australian Institute of Physics inaugurated the Walter Boas Medal, awarded annually for significant original research.

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Chronology

1928
Education - Dip. Ing, Technische Hochschule, Berlin, Germany
1928 - 1932
Career position - Assistant research officer, physics section, Kaiser Wilhelm Institute für Metallforschung, Berlin-Dahlem, Germany
1930
Education - Dr Ing, Technische Hochschule, Berlin, Germany
1933 - 1935
Career position - Assistant, physics department, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
1936 - 1937
Career position - Research officer, physics department, Technische Hochschule, Zürich, Switzerland
1937 - 1938
Career position - Research associate, Royal Institution, London
1938 - 1940
Career position - Lecturer in metallurgy, University of Melbourne
1940 - 1947
Career position - Senior lecturer, University of Melbourne
1941 - 1982
Career position - Foundation Member, Australian Institute of Metals
1943 - 1982
Award - Fellow, Institute of Physics, United Kingdom
1947 - 1949
Career position - Principal research officer, CSIR Division of Tribophysics
1949 - 1969
Career position - Chief, CSIRO Division of Tribophysics
1954 - 1982
Award - Foundation Fellow, Australian Academy of Science
1962
Award - Silver Medal, Australian Institute of Metals
1962
Career position - President, Australian Institute of Metals
1962 - 1982
Award - Foundation Fellow, Australian Institute of Physics
1964 - 1966
Career position - Member of Council, Australian Academy of Science
1965 - 1982
Award - Foreign Scientific Fellow, Max-Planck-Institut für Metallkunde, Germany
1966 - 1972
Career position - Vice-President, International Union of Pure and Applied Physics
1969 - ?
Career position - Honorary Senior Associate, Department of Metallurgy, University of Melbourne
1969
Life event - Retired
1972 - 1982
Award - Corresponding Member, Austrian Academy of Sciences
1974
Award - Doctor of Applied Science (DAppSc), honoris causa, University of Melbourne

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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

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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 (Melbourne: Department of History, University of Melbourne, 2003), 168 pp. Details
  • Hyde, B. G.; and Day, P, 'John Stuart Anderson', Historical Records of Australian Science, 9 (2) (1992), 127-49. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR9920920127. Details

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