Corporate Body

National Standards Laboratory - CSIR/O (1939 - 1973)

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

From
1 January 1939
Australia
To
1973
Functions
Weights or Measurement Industries, Industrial or scientific research and Analytical Services

Summary

The CSIR/O National Standards Laboratory (NSL) was established in 1939. The Laboratory consisted of three Sections; Electrotechnology, Metrology and Physics. The Laboratory continued to operate after its Sections became Divisions, in 1945. The NSL traversed the transition of CISR to CSIRO in 1949.

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From the Historical Directory, page 61:

"A Committee of Inquiry was held in 1957 and N.A. Esserman became Director of the National Standards Laboratory in 1958, The divisional structure was retained, and this arrangement continued until Esserman's retirement in 1961.

The Divisions of Electrotechnology and Metrology were then amalgamated to form the Division of Applied Physics, with F.J. Lehany as Chief. The NSL Committee was formed, consisting of the Chiefs of Physics and Applied Physics, and was responsible for general policy concerning the Laboratory as a whole. Lehany was Chairman of the NSL Committee.

The National Standards Laboratory became the National Measurement Laboratory on 1 July 1974 with the amalgamation of the two Divisions of Physics and Applied Physics. "

Timeline

 1939 - 1973 National Standards Laboratory - CSIR/O
       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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Published resources

Books

  • 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. Page 61. Details
  • Wright, J. F. H., Measurement in Australia, 1938-1988: a History of Australia's National Standards Laboratory (Sydney: CSIRO, Division of Applied Physics, 1998), 142 pp. Details
  • Wright, J.F.H., Measurement in Australia 1938-1988: a History of Australia's National Standards Laboratory (Sydney: CSIRO Australia, 1989), 134 pp. Details

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