Corporate Body
CSIR/O Division of Industrial Chemistry (1940 - 1958)
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
- From
- 1 July 1940
Fisherman's Bend, Victoria, Australia - To
- 8 October 1958
- Functions
- Industrial or scientific research
- Reference No
- CA 7689
- Legal Status
- Agency of the Commonwealth of Australia
- Location
- Fisherman's Bend, Victoria
Summary
Existing from 1940 to 1958, the CSIR/O Division of Industrial Chemistry traversed the transition of CSIR to CSIRO in 1949. In 1958 it was divided into the CSIRO Organic Chemistry Section, the CSIRO Division Physical Chemistry, and the Division of Chemical Physics. later became the Divisions of Physical Chemistry, Mineral Chemistry and Chemical Physics, as well as the Organic Chemistry Section, the Cement Section, and the Chemical Engineering Section.
Details
From the National Archives of Australia, RecordSearch entry for CA 7689:
"The Division of Industrial Chemistry was established in 1940 and operated until 8 October 1958, when the Division was then divided into the Divisions of Physical Chemistry, Mineral Chemistry (CA 4541) and Chemical Physics (CA 4529), the Cement Section, Organic Chemistry Section and the Chemical Engineering Section. These Divisions/ Sections became known as the Chemical Research Laboratory which was eventually disbanded on 30 August 1970."
Related entries
Timeline
1940 - 1958 CSIR/O Division of Industrial Chemistry
c. 1958 - 1960 CSIRO Cement and Ceramic Section
1958 - 1961 CSIRO Organic Chemistry Section
1958 - 1966 CSIRO Division of Physical Chemistry
1958 - 1959 CSIRO Minerals Utilization Section
1958 - 1970 Chemical Research Laboratories - CSIRO
1958 - 1987 CSIRO Division of Chemical Physics
1959 - 1988 CSIRO Division of Mineral Chemistry
1959 - 1988 CSIRO Division of Mineral Chemistry
1960 - 1962 CSIRO Cement and Refractories Section
1961 - 1966 CSIRO Division of Organic Chemistry
1966 - 1974 CSIRO Division of Applied Chemistry
1975 - c. 1980 CSIRO Division of Process Technology
1987 - 1997 CSIRO Division of Materials Science and Technology
1988 - 1995 CSIRO Division of Mineral Products
1962? - 1970 CSIRO Division of Applied Mineralogy
1966 - 1974 CSIRO Division of Applied Chemistry
1974 - 1987? CSIRO Division of Chemical Technology
1974 - 1988 CSIRO Division of Applied Organic Chemistry
1977 - 1980 CSIRO Fuel Geoscience Unit
c. 1995 - CSIRO Minerals Division
1997 - 2002 CSIRO Division of Manufacturing Science and Technology
1971 - 1984 CSIRO Division of Mineralogy
1980 - 1987 CSIRO Division of Fossil Fuels
1988 - 1990 CSIRO Division of Forestry and Forest Products (mark I)
1988 - 1997 CSIRO Division of Chemicals and Polymers
1977 - 1980 CSIRO Fuel Geoscience Unit
1984 - 1985 CSIRO Division of Mineralogy and Geochemistry
1988 - 1990 CSIRO Division of Coal Technology
1990 - 1995 CSIRO Division of Forest Products (mark II)
1991 - 1995 CSIRO Division of Forestry
1997 - 2005 CSIRO Division of Molecular Science
1985 - 1987 CSIRO Division of Minerals and Geochemistry
1990 - 1995 CSIRO Division of Forest Products (mark II)
1990 - c. 1995 CSIRO Division of Coal and Energy Technology
1995 - 2007 CSIRO Division of Forestry and Forest Products (mark II)
1995 - 2007 CSIRO Division of Forestry and Forest Products (mark II)
2005 - CSIRO Molecular and Health Technologies
1988 - 1993 CSIRO Division of Exploration and Geoscience
c. 1995 - CSIRO Energy Technology
2004 - 2007 ENSIS
1993 - CSIRO Division of Exploration and Mining
1993 - CSIRO Division of Petroleum Resources
2007 - 2008 CSIRO Division of Forestry Biosciences
2008 - CSIRO Division of Plant Industry
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Subordinate
Published resources
Books
- Bear, I. Joy.; Biegler, Tom; Scott, Tom. R., Alumina to zirconia: the history of CSIRO Division of Mineral Chemistry (Clayton, Victoria: CSIRO Minerals, 2001), 426 pp, https://ebooks.publish.csiro.au/content/alumina-zirconia. Details
- Schedvin, C.B; Trace, K., Historical Directory of Council for Scientific and Industrial Research and Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, 1926-1976 (Canberra: CSIRO, 1978), 101 pp. https://csiropedia.csiro.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/csiro_historical_directory_1926_1976.pdf. Details
Journal Articles
- Hannaford, Peter, 'Alan Walsh 1916-1998', Historical Records of Australian Science, 13 (2) (2000), 179-206. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR0001320179. Details
- Wark, I. W., 'The CSIRO Division of Industrial Chemistry, 1940-1952', Records of the Australian Academy of Science, 4 (2) (1979), 7-41. http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/HR9790420007.htm. Details
Resources
- Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-568181. Details
Resource Sections
- 'Primary description of agency CA 7689; CSIR/ (from 1949) CSIRO, Division of Industrial Chemistry. Registration of entity: 5 May 1993', in RecordSearch, National Archives of Australia, 2000, https://RecordSearch.naa.gov.au/scripts/AutoSearch.asp?Number=CA%207689. Details
See also
- Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Technology in Australia 1788-1988, Online edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, 3 May 2000, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/tia/index_c.html. Details
- Hannaford, Peter, 'Walsh, Alan' in New Dictionary of Scientific Biography, Koertge, Noretta, ed., vol. 7 (Detroit : Charles Scribner's Sons, 2008), pp. 228-233 . Details
- Spurling, Tom, 'Donald (Don) Willis: Distinguished CSIRO Scientist', Chemistry in Australia, 2013 (July) (2013), 28. Details
- Willis, J. B., 'Wark, Sir Ian William (1899-1985), Chemist and Scientific Administrator' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 18: 1981 - 1990 L-Z, Melanie Nolan, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2012), pp. 558-9. http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/wark-sir-ian-william-15853. Details
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