Chapman, Henry George (1879 - 1934)

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.

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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, 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

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Published resources

Book Sections

• Teale, Ruth, 'Chapman, Henry George (1879-1934), professor of physiology' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 7: 1891 - 1939 A-Ch, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds (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

• Currie, George; Graham, John, The Origins of CSIRO: Science and the Commonwealth Government, 1901-1926 (Melbourne: CSIRO, 1966), 203 pp, https://ebooks.publish.csiro.au/content/origins-csiro. pages 141, 142. Details
• Hyslop, Anthea, 'Burley, Frank Arthur (1881-1957) and Frederick Richard (1885-1954), corset manufacturers' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 13: 1940 - 1980 A-De, John Ritchie, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1993), pp. 307-309. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A130347b.htm. Details
• 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