Corporate Body

CSIRO Division of Coal Research (1959 - 1967)

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

From: May 1959
Australia
To: 1967
Functions: Industrial or scientific research and Energy

Summary

The Division of Coal Research replaced the Coal Research Section in May 1959. In 1967 it was incorporated into the Division of Mineral Chemistry.

Timeline

Controlling Corporate Bodies

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

Related People

Baker, Kingsley F. (1920 - 1963)
Supervisor of Technical Services with the CSIRO Division of Coal Research

Date: 1955 - 1963
Brown, Horace Roy
Chief from 1960 - 1967
Durie, Robert, Arthur (Bob) (1926 - 2016)
Assistant Chief 1965 - 1967
Mulcahy, Maurice Francis Robinson (1920 - 2020)
Principal Research Fellow 1959 - 1975
Sasse, Wolfgang Hermann Fritz (1928 - )
Principal Research Scientist at the Division of Coal Research, CSIRO, Sydney

Date: 1964 - 1967
Shannon, James Stanley (Jim) (1926 - 2015)
Senior Principal Research Scientist 1963 - 1969
Sternhell, Sever (1930 - 2022)
Research Officer (later Senior Research Officer) 1955 - 1964

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-458252. 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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