Corporate Body

National Measurement Laboratory - CSIRO (1974 - 1979)

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

From
1 July 1974
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
To
1 January 1979
Functions
Analytical Services, Industrial or scientific research and Weights or Measurement Industries
Reference No
CA 4377
Legal Status
Agency of the Commonwealth of Australia
Location
Sydney, New South Wales

Summary

The CSIRO National Measurement Laboratory was formed on 1 July 1974 replacing the National Standards Laboratory. It was the result of the amalgamation of the CSIR/O Division of Physics and the CSIRO Division of Applied Physics [I]. In 1978 The Laboratory changed its name to the CSIRO Division of Applied Physics [II].

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 1939 - 1945 CSIR Metrology Section
 1939 - 1945 CSIR Electrotechnology Section
       1939 - 1945 CSIR Physics Section
       1945 - 1962 CSIR/O Division of Metrology
       1945 - 1962 CSIR/O Division of Electrotechnology
             1939 - 1973 National Standards Laboratory - CSIR/O
             1945 - 1973 CSIR/O Division of Physics
             1962 - 1974 CSIRO Division of Applied Physics [I]
                   1974 - 1979 National Measurement Laboratory - CSIRO
                         1979 - 1996 CSIRO Division of Applied Physics [II]
                               1996 - CSIRO Division of Telecommunications and Industrial Physics

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  • Todd, Jan, For good measure: the making of Australia's measurement system (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 2004), 290 pp. Details
  • White, Guy K., 'Thermophysical measurements at the Australian National Measurement Laboratory', Australian and New Zealand physicist, 28 (11) (191), 238-43. Details

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