Doherty, William Michael (1865 - 1950)

Summary

William Michael Doherty was Government Analyst, Office of the Director General of Public Health, New South Wales, from 1929 to 1930. He first joined the department in 1887 as assistant to the then Analyst Charles Watt. In 1915 he was promoted to Second Government Analyst and retired in September 1930. Doherty wrote important reports and articles on many varied fields including arsenic levels in coal to the analysis of the Cavendish Banana.

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Chronology

1910 - c. 1912

Career position - Assistant Analyst, Department of Public Health, New South Wales

c. 1912 - 1915

Career position - Third Government Analyst, Office of the Director-General of Public Health, New South Wales

1915 - c. 1929

Career position - Second Government Analyst, Office of the Director-General of Public Health, New South Wales

1923

Career position - Elected Associate Member (Chemistry), Australian National Research Council

c. 1929 - 1930

Career position - Government Analyst, Office of the Director-General of Public Health, New South Wales

1930

Life event - Retired

1936 - 1945

Career position - Registered Anaylist, Department of Health, New South Wales

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Published resources

Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions

• Collins, David, Chemistry in 19th Australia - Select Bibliography, An exhibition of the Encyclopedia circa 2005 with assistance from Ailie Smith and Gavan McCarthy., eScholarship Research Centre (original publisher), Melbourne, 2009, https://eoas.info/exhibitions/ciab/ciab_ALL.html. Details

Journal Articles

• Doherty, W.M., 'The Analysis of the Cavendish Banana (Musa cavendishii) in Relation to its Value as Food', Report of the fourth meeting of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science, 4 (1893), 267-270, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15558730. Details
• Doherty, W.M., 'Notes on a Block of Portland Cement (Set for nearly fifty years)', Report of the sixth meeting of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science, 6 (1895), 304-306, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/52884178. Details
• Doherty, W.M., 'Arsenic in Coal', The Chemical News and Journal of Physical Science, 73 (1896), 191-192. Details
• Doherty, W.M., 'Apparatus for the Detection of Boric Acid', Proceedings of the Chemical Society, 12 (1896), 101-2. Details
• Doherty, W.M., 'Apparatus for the Detection of Boric Acid', The Chemical News and Journal of Physical Science, 73 (1896), 230. Details
• Doherty, W.M., 'Manganese Nodules Found at Onybygambah', Report of the seventh meeting of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science, 7 (1898), 339, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15378305. Details
• Doherty, W.M., 'On the Water of the Water-Vine', Report of the seventh meeting of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science, 7 (1898), 335, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15378301. Details
• Doherty, W.M., 'On the estimation of Wheatmeal in Oatmeal by a Gravimetric Process', Report of the seventh meeting of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science, 7 (1898), 336-338, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15378302. Details
• Doherty, William M., 'On the Composition of Lucerne (Medicago sativa)', Report of the second meeting of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science, 2 (1890), 383-385, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14563361. Details

Resources

• Early Chemists of Sydney, 2006, http://members.optusnet.com.au/jph8524/McKern.htm. Details
• 'Doherty, William Michael (1865-)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1475799. Details