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Boas, Isaac Herbert (1878–1955)

scientist

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Isaac Boas, 1928

Isaac Boas, 1928

State Library of Western Australia, b2504521

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Birth

20 October, 1878
Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

Death

16 October, 1955 (aged 76)
Hawthorn, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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