Corporate Body

Council - CSIR (1926 - 1949)

Council for Scientific and Industrial Research

From
1926
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
To
1949
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Functions
Scientific Advisory to Government

Summary

The "Science and Industry Research Act 1926" placed the control of the Commonwealth's activities in the field of scientific and industrial research in the hands of a "Council". It was a corporate body consisting of: three members nominated by the Minister (one as Chairman) and appointed by the Governor-General; the Chairman of each State Committee of the Council; and other members co-opted with the consent of the Minister by reason of their scientific knowledge.

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Members included: [from CSIROpedia]
Andrews, Roderic Stafford 1948-1949
Ashby, Edwin 1944-1945
Bell, Arthur Frank 1948-1949
Brodribb, Noel Kenric Stevens 1938-1949
Brown, Harry 1944-1949
Burnet, Frank Macfarlane 1947-1949
Cameron, Samuel Sherwin 1926
Clunies Ross, William Ian 1942-1949
Colman, George Stanley 1934-1943
Cook, G.A. 1926-1927
Dakin, William John 1944-1949
Darnell-Smith, George Percy 1926-1927
Donaldson, R.J. 1941-1947
Eady, T.W. 1942-1947
Easterby, Harry Tinniswood 1926-1927
Field, T.E. 1936-1941
Foster, Francis.Henry 1943-1948
Gibson, A.J. 1946-1949
Gillies, C.L. 1926-1927
Goddard, E.J. 1926-1941
Goodes, H.J. 1949
Graham, A.E. 1926
Grant, Kerr 1944-1948
Grimwade, W. Russell 1932-1942
Harper, P.H. 1943-1949
Hartung, Ernest Johannes 1942-1948
Holden, Edward Wheewall 1942-1944
Julius, George Alfred 1926-1944
Keam, P.E. 1928-1942
Kelly, W.S. 1944-1949
Kessell, Stephen Lackey (Kim) 1948-1949
Lefroy, Edward Henry Bruce 1933-1949
Leighton, A.E. 1927-1930
Lightfoor, Gordon (sic) 1926-1949
Madsen, John Percival Vissing 1943-1949
Masson, David Orme 1927-1937
Mountjoy, D.A. 1946-1949
Mullett, H.A. 1926
Myers, D.M. 1949

Robertson, Thorburn Brailsford 1927-1928

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