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Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) (1926 - 1949)

Commonwealth of Australia
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The following entries are from the History of Australian Science and Technology Bibliography.

Books

  • Bastian, J. M.; McBean, D. McG.; Smith, M. B., 50 Years of Food Research, CSIRO, Melbourne, 1979. [ Details ]

  • Currie, George; Graham, John, The Origins of CSIRO: Science and the Commonwealth Government, 1901-1926, CSIRO, Melbourne, 1966, 203 pp. [ Details ]

  • Rivett, R., David Rivett: Fighter for Australian Science, R. D. Rivett, Camberwell, Victoria, 1972, 225 pp. [ Details ]

  • Schedvin, C. C., Shaping Science and Industry: a History of Australia's Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1987, 400 pp. [ Details ]

Book Chapters

  • Alvarez, Amaya Jane, 'Invisible Workers and Invisible Barriers: Women in the CSIR in the 1930s and the 1940s', in Farley Kelly (ed.), On the Edge of Discovery: Australian Women in Science, Text Publishing Company, Melbourne, 1993, pp. 77-103. [ Details ]

Conference Papers

  • Schedvin, C. B. and Trace, K., 'Aspects of the Pre-War History of CSIR', in Paper for the Australian Association for the History and Philosophy of Science Conference, Melbourne, 1976, 1976, p. 21. [ Details ]

  • Spink, John, 'Australian Physics and the Evolution of CSIR', in Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science, Congress, Canberra, 1984, pp. 1-27. [ Details ]

Journal Articles

  • Currie, George; Graham, John, 'Growth of Scientific Research in Australia: the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research and the Empire Marketing Board', Records of the Australian Academy of Science, vol. 1, no. 3, 1968, pp. 25-35. (Also available at http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/HR9680130025.htm) [ Details ]

  • Gentilli, J., 'A History of Meteorological and Climatological Studies in Australia', University Studies in History, vol. 5, 1967, pp. 54-88. [ Details ]

  • Turner, A. W., 'Gilruth's Work with the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, 1929-1936', Australian Veterinary Journal, vol. 13, 1937, pp. 112-115. [ Details ]

Theses

  • Alvarez, Amaya, 'Writing about Women in the History of Science: a Study of Women at the CSIR 1930-1950', MA thesis, University of Melbourne, 1993. [ Details ]


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