Corporate Body

CSIRO Minerals Utilization Section (1958 - 1959)

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

From: 9 October 1958
Australia
To: May 1959
Functions: Industrial or scientific research, Metallurgy and Mineralogy or mining

Summary

The Materials Utilization Section began as part of the Division of Industrial Chemistry. It became a separate Division in the late 1950s, becoming the Division of Mineral Chemistry.

Timeline

Controlling Corporate Bodies

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

Related People

Bear, Isabel (Joy) (1927 - 2021)
Experimental Officer 1958 - 1959

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

Resources

Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1476667. Details

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