Esserman, Norman Abraham (1896 - 1982)

Summary

Norman Esserman was Officer-in-charge of the CSIR/O National Standards Laboratory 1940-1958 and Director 1958-1961, and head of Metrology 1939-1961. Earlier he worked at the Munitions Supply Laboratories, Maribyrnong 1923-1938.

Details

Chronology

1916

Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc), University of Sydney

1916 - 1918

Career position - Member of the Australian munitions team in the UK

1918 - 1919

Education - Educated at the Royal College of Science, London

1923 - 1938

Career position - Physicist, Munitions Supply Laboratories, Maribyrnong, Victoria

1935 - 1936

Career position - President, Royal Society of Victoria

1939 - 1945

Career position - Officer-in-charge, Metrology Section, National Standards Laboratory

1940

Career position - Member of the Optical Munitions Panel

1940 - 1958

Career position - Officer-in-charge, National Standards Laboratory

c. 1941 - 1947

Career position - Member of Council, Australian Council for Aeronautics

1944

Career position - Member of the Optical Advisory Panel to Ministry of Post-War Reconstruction

1944 - 1945

Career position - Chairman, New South Wales Division, Institute of Physics, Australian branch

1945 - 1961

Career position - Chief of the CSIR (Council for Scientific and Industrial Research) Division of Metrology

1954

Career position - Honorary Treasurer, Australian National Research Council

1958 - 1961

Career position - Director, National Standards Laboratory

1961

Award - First Jack Finlay National Award, Australian Council, Institution of Production Engineers

1964

Career position - Chairman, Optical Munitions Technical Advisory Committee, Department of Defence Production

Related entries

Archival resources

University of Sydney, Archives

• Norman Abraham Esserman - Records, P 19; University of Sydney, Archives. Details

Published resources

Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions

• Exhibition Papers, A Bright Sparcs Exhibition, Australian Science Archives Project, 1997, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/exhib/papers/exhib_papers.htm. Details
• The Giant's Eye: the Optical Munitions Exhibition, Australian Science Archives Project, 1997, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/exhib/omp/omp.htm. Details

Resources

• 'Esserman, Norman Abraham (18960724-19821105)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1476444. Details

Resource Sections

• 'Esserman, Norman Abraham', in Physics in Australia to 1945, R.W. Home, with the assistance of Paula J. Needham, Australian Science Archives Project, June 1995, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/physics/P001646p.htm. Details
• 'Esserman, Norman Abraham', in The Giant's Eye: the Optical Munitions Exhibition, A Bright Sparcs Exhibition, Australian Science Archives Project, 1997, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/exhib/omp/people/esserman.htm. Details

See also

• Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Technology in Australia 1788-1988, Online edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, 3 May 2000, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/tia/index_e.html. Details
• Bolton, H. C., 'Optical Instruments in Australia in the 1939-45 War: successes and lost opportunities', Australian Physicist (1990). http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/exhib/papers/bolton2.htm. Details
• Mellor, D.P., 'Optical Munitions', Chapter 12 in Australia in the War of 1939-1945, Series 4: Civil, volume 5 'The Role of Science and Industry', Canberra: Australian War Memorial, 1958 (1958). http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/exhib/papers/mellor.htm. Details
• Wisdom, John, A History of Defence Science in Australia (Melbourne: Defence Science and Technology Organisation, 1995), 267 pp. Details