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Boan, Robert (1863? - 1936)
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Analytical chemist
Born: 1863?.  Died: 10 December 1936  Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Robert Boan worked for the Victorian Railways Department 1878-1925. On his advice the Department added a chemical laboratory to its organisation, which he gradually built up, as chemist-in-charge, to an important testing and research laboratory.
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1878 - 1925Engineer, then Engineer of Tests at the Victorian Railways Department
1925 - 1929Analytical and Consulting Chemist (in partnership with his son, R. F. Boan)
1929 - 1933Chemical Adviser to Texas Oil Co.
1933 - 1936Private practice with his son
1936Chairman of the Sydney Section of the Society of Chemical Industry

 
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