Corporate Body

CSIR/O Coal Research Section (1948 - 1960)

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

From: 1948
Australia
To: 1960
Functions: Metallurgy, Mineralogy or mining and Industrial or scientific research

Summary

The Coal Research Section was established by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in 1948 and continued under CSIRO from 1949. In 1960 it became a CSIRO Division - the Division of Coal Research.

Timeline

Controlling Corporate Bodies

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Commonwealth of Australia (1949 - )

isPartOf

CSIRO - Sections, Groups and Units, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (1949 - 2014?)

Related People

Brown, Horace Roy
Chief 1949 - 1960
Cooper, W. T.
Editor at the Coal Research Laboratory of the CSIRO

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. Details

Resources

Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1476569. Details

Resource Sections

'Primary description of agency CA 4541; CSIRO, Division of Mineral Chemistry. Registration of entity: 1 October 1987', in RecordSearch, National Archives of Australia, 2000, https://RecordSearch.naa.gov.au/scripts/AutoSearch.asp?Number=CA%204541. Details

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