Walter Boas

{{Short description|German-Australian metallurgist}}

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| birth_date = 10 February 1904

| birth_place = Berlin

| death_date = 12 May 1982

| death_place = Prahran (Melbourne)

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| nationality = Australian
German

| fields = Metallurgy; Physics

| workplaces = University of Melbourne

| alma_mater = Technische Universität Berlin

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Walter Moritz Boas FAA (10 February 1904 – 12 May 1982) was a German-Australian metallurgist.

{{cite web |url=http://www.eoas.info/biogs/P000243b.htm | title=Boas, Walter Moritz (1904–1982) |publisher=Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation |author=McCarthy, G.J. |accessdate=13 May 2012}}

{{cite book |author= Ian D. Rae |title= Boas, Walter Moritz (1904–1982) |chapter= Walter Moritz Boas (1904–1982) |work= Australian Dictionary of Biography |publisher= National Centre of Biography, Australian National University |chapter-url= http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/boas-walter-moritz-12226 }} First published in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 17, (MUP), 2007.

Boas was born in Berlin, Germany and was educated at the Technische Hochschule in Charlottenburg (now Technische Universität Berlin; Dip. Engin. 1928, Dr.-Ing. 1930). After several positions at German and Swiss institutions, Boas became a lecturer in metallurgy at University of Melbourne in 1938; then from 1940 to 1947, senior lecturer. From 1947 to 1949, Boas was principal research officer, CSIR Division of Tribophysics; and from 1949 to 1969 chief of the division.

The Walter Boas Medal of the Australian Institute of Physics is named in his honour.{{cite web |url=http://www.aip.org.au/content/boas |title=Walter Boas Medal |publisher=Australian Institute of Physics |accessdate=11 May 2012}}