Corporate Body

CSIRO Division of Chemicals and Polymers (1988 - 1997)

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

From: January 1988
Fisherman's Bend, Victoria, Australia
To: 1 July 1997
Functions: Industrial or scientific research
Reference No: CA 4531
Legal Status: Agency of the Commonwealth of Australia
Location: Fisherman's Bend, Victoria

Summary

In 1988, CSIRO's Division of Applied Organic Chemistry was replaced by the Division of Chemicals and Polymers. The Division had Laboratories located in Fisherman's Bend and Clayton. It was replaced in July 1997 by the Division of Molecular Science.

Related People

Ballard, Matthew John (Mat) (1957 - )
Senior Research Scientist 1992 - 2003
Drummond, Calum John (1960 - )
Senior Research Scientist and leader of the Applied Surface Chemistry Project 1996-99; Senior Principal Research Scientist 1999-2001
Grayson, Hugh Alexander (1927 - 2001)
Chairman of the Advisory Committee 1995 - 1989
Rizzardo, Ezio (1943 - )
Chief Research Scientist 1992 - 2000
Savage, Gregory Paul (Paul) (c. 1965 - )
Postdoctoral position at the CSIRO Division of Chemicals and Polymers (1990) Research Scientist then Senior Research Scientist (from 1994) at the CSIRO Division of Chemicals and Polymers (1991 - 1994)

Date: 1990
Solomon, David Henry (1929 - )
Chief of the Division 1988 - 1989
Spurling, Thomas Harley (Tom) (1940 - )
Chief of Division 1989 - 1996
Winkler, David Alan (1952 - )
Principal Research Scientist at CSIRO Division of Chemicals and Polymers

Date: 1993 - 1997

Archival resources

National Archives of Australia, Melbourne Office

CSIRO, Division of Chemicals and Polymers, Currency Note Research and Development Project; National Archives of Australia, Melbourne Office. Details

Published resources

Books

Buchanan, Roderick; McCarthy, Gavan; Manhal, Oscar, The Records of Currency Note Research and Development Project, CSIRO, Division of Chemicals and Polymers (Melbourne: Australian Science Archives Project, 1991), 103 pp. Details

Reports

Spurling, Tom; Upstill, Garrett; Jordan, Max, Research opportunities in the polymer and plastics industry: CSIRO Institute of Industrial Technologies August 1988 (Canberra, ACT: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Organisation, 1988), 57 pp, https://eoas.info/bib-pdf/ASBS15632.pdf. Details

Resources

Buchanan, Roderick; Gavan McCarthy; Oscar Manhal, Currency Note Research and Development Project CSIRO, Division of Chemicals and Polymers Guide to Records, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, 2004, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/guides/plbn/plbn.htm. Details
Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-533299. Details

Resource Sections

'Primary description of agency CA 4531; CSIRO, Division of Molecular Science, Clayton, [Victoria]. Registration of entity: 1 October 1987', in RecordSearch, National Archives of Australia, 2000, https://RecordSearch.naa.gov.au/scripts/AutoSearch.asp?Number=CA%204531. Details

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