Person
Bosworth, Richard Charles Leslie (1907 - 1964)
- Born
- 17 January 1907
Adelaide, South Australia, Australia - Died
- 24 March 1964
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Occupation
- Physical chemist
Summary
Richard Bosworth was recognised as a world authority on heat transfer and transport processes in applied chemistry. Having been awarded a 1851 Exhibition Overseas Scholarship for PhD studies at the University of Cambridge, from 1938 to 1956 he was Research Chemist and Manager of the Research Department at the Colonial Sugar Refining Company. In 1957 he became Associate Professor of Physical Chemistry at the New South Wales University College (from 1958 the University of New South Wales). Among his publications were Heat transfer phenomena (1952) and Transport processes in applied chemistry (1956).
Details
Chronology
- 1928
- Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc), University of Adelaide
- 1931
- Education - Master of Science (MSc), University of Adelaide
- 1933 - 1935
- Award - 1851 Exhibition Overseas Scholarship, studied at Trinity College, University of Cambridge
- 1935
- Education - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), University of Cambridge
- 1936 - 1937
- Award - 1851 Exhibition Research Fellowship
- 1938
- Education - Doctor of Science (DSc), University of Adelaide
- 1938 - 1948
- Career position - Research Chemist, Colonial Sugar Refining Company
- 1948 - 1957
- Career position - Manager, Research Department, Colonial Sugar Refining Company
- 1951 - 1952
- Career position - President, Royal Society of New South Wales
- 1952
- Career event - Achieved a patent for a type of salicylic acid, jointly with Beverly Cortis-Jones
- 1952
- Award - H. G. Smith Memorial Medal, Australian Chemical Institute
- 1957 - 1964
- Career position - Associate Professor and Head of physical chemistry department, New South Wales University of Technology (later University New South Wales)
- 1958
- Award - Royal Society of New South Wales Medal
- 1958?
- Career position - President, New South Wales Branch, British Society of Rheology
- 1958
- Career position - President, University of New South Wales Chemical Society
- 1961
- Career position - Visiting Professor, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
Related entries
Archival resources
University of New South Wales Archives
- Richard Charles Leslie Bosworth - Records, 1930 - 1964, CN 929; University of New South Wales Archives. Details
Published resources
Book Sections
- Bhathal, R., 'Bosworth, Richard Charles Leslie (1907-1964), chemist and academic' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 13: 1940 - 1980 A-De, John Ritchie, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1993), pp. 226-227. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A130257b.htm. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q24239552. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/55616901. Details
- 'Bosworth, R C L (1907-1964)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1054637. Details
Resource Sections
- 'Bosworth, Richard Charles Leslie', in Physics in Australia to 1945, R.W. Home, with the assistance of Paula J. Needham, Australian Science Archives Project, June 1995, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/physics/P001606p.htm. Details
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Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 10 September 2024
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