Person
Chapman, Henry George (1879 - 1934)
- Born
- 13 January 1879
Ealing, Middlesex, England - Died
- 25 May 1934
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Occupation
- Physiologist
Summary
Henry Chapman was a physiologist who held chairs in pharmacology and physiology at the University of Sydney before being appointed Director of Cancer Research in 1928. He also lectured on the technology of breadmaking at the Sydney Technical College from 1908, being responsible for the establishment of a school of bakery at the College in 1916. His particular research interest was in the physiology of poisons. Chapman was Chairman of the 1919 - 1920 Commission on Miners' Diseases, investigating the prevalence of miners' phthisis and pneumoconiosis in the Broken Hill mines. He was a member of the Royal Society of New South Wales and President of the Linnean Society of New South Wales from 1917 to 1919.
Details
Chronology
- c. 1886 -
- Life event - Arrived in Australia
- 1899
- Education - MB, University of Melbourne
- 1900
- Education - BS, University of Melbourne
- 1901
- Education - MB, University of Adelaide
- 1901
- Career position - Acting professor of physiology, University of Adelaide
- 1902
- Education - MD, University of Melbourne
- 1902
- Career position - Demonstrator in pathology, University of Melbourne
- 1903 - 1913
- Career position - 1903 - 1913 Lecturer and demonstrator in physiology, University of Sydney
- 1907 - ?
- Career position - Honorary pathological chemist, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney
- 1908 - ?
- Career position - Lecturer on the technology of breadmaking, Sydney Technical College
- 1910
- Award - David Syme Research Prize (jointly), University of Melbourne
- 1913 - 1918
- Career position - Assistant Professor of Physiology, University of Sydney
- 1917 - 1919
- Career position - President, Linnean Society of New South Wales
- 1918 - 1921
- Career position - Professor of Pharmacology, University of Sydney
- 1919 -
- Career position - Foundation Councillor (Physiology), Honorary Treasurer, Australian National Research Council
- 1919 - 1920
- Career position - Chairman of the technical commission of inquiry into the prevalence of miners' phthisis and pneumoconiosis in the Broken Hill mines
- 1921 - 1928
- Career position - Professor of Physiology, University of Sydney
- 1928
- Career position - President, Section N (Physiology and Experimental Biology), Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science
- 1928 - 1934
- Career position - Director of cancer research, University of Sydney
- 1931 - 1933
- Career position - President, New South Wales Branch, Australian Chemical Institute
Related entries
Published resources
Book Sections
- Teale, Ruth, 'Chapman, Henry George (1879-1934), professor of physiology' in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds, vol. 7 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1979), pp. 612-613. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A070622b.htm. Details
Journal Articles
- Chapman, Henry George, 'Organization of cancer research and treatment', Medical journal of Australia, 2 (12) (1929), 390-4. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q21538909. Details
- 'Chapman, Henry G (1879-1934)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-971841. Details
See also
- Wark, I. W.; and Ellis, E. G., 'Maurice Alan Edgar Mawby 1904-197', Historical Records of Australian Science, 5 (1) (1980), 104-128. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR9800510104. Details
Gavan McCarthy [P004098] and Helen Cohn
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