Abstract:
Henri Pieter Albert de Boom was
born on 16 October 1914 in Pretoria. He
completed his schooling at the Oosteindschool
in 1931 and qualified as veterinarian
from the Onderstepoort faculty in
1936. The rest of his career until his retirement
was spent at Onderstepoort, first as
research officer and part-time teacher at
the faculty, and finally, in 1955, at the
age of 41, as professor and head of the
Anatomy Department. In 1957 de Boom became one of the first full-time professors. Prof. H.P.A. de Boom lectured in Comparative Anatomy and Embryology until 1955 when the then current head of the Department of Anatomy, Prof Cecil Jackson, resigned. Prof. de Boom retired from the
Onderstepoort faculty in 1974 at the age
of 60 but continued to be actively involved
in teaching.
Description:
Black/white photo. Original document size: (w)4.76 x (h)6.91 cm. Original scanned size: 247 kb JPEG, 600 dpi. Final web-ready size: 29.3 kb. Estimate download time: 11 sec. @ 28.8 kbps. Original TIFF file housed at the Dept. Veterinary Tropical Diseases, University of Pretoria. Metadata assigned by Prof. R.C. Tustin, Professor Emeritus: DVTD. His academic and professional experience includes: veterinarian for 54 years,
senior lecturer at UP for 7 years, head of Department at UP for 17 years and Veterinary Council for 3 years.
