Alumni stories

Jim Edwards – Driving energy research for over 48 years

Jim joined CSIRO Division of Fossil Fuels/Process Technology after working as a senior process engineer for Altona Petrochemical in 1972. […]

Eric Webb – 50 years with CSIRO Aspendale

WEBB, Eric Kenneth 17.12.1921 - 30.9/2020 Eric was born in Camberwell to parents Eric Roger and Florence Isobel (nee Balderson). […]

Dr Alan Donald

Alan was the CSIRO Director of Institute of Animal Production and Processing from 1988 until his retirement in December 1994. He was an internationally recognized parasitologist with a special interest in the control of worm parasites in domestic livestock.

David Henry (Dave) Solomon

David was the CSIRO Foundation Chief of the Division of Applied Organic Chemistry (later the Division of Chemicals & Polymers) for 17 years.

Ross Kingsland AM

Founder of the CSIRO’s Double Helix Science Club, Ross also established a national network of CSIRO Science Education Centres around Australia, along with many other educational projects.

Sir Ian William Wark (1899–1985)

Active in many professional scientific bodies, Wark was federal president (1958) of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute and one of the first fellows (1954), and treasurer (1959-63), of the Australian Academy of Science.

Photographer – John Masterson, CSIRO Division of Radiophysics

In former years many of CSIRO's Division's employed photographers to record Divisional and regional activities. Due to their skill and dedication many of the wonderful archival photos that are added to publications, CSIRO activities and displays still survive. This article is about John Masterson, photographer for the CSIRO Radiophysics Laboratory.

Librarian and scientist – Mary Ellinor Lucy Archer (1893–1979)

The Archer meeting room at CSIRO Clayton is named in her honour and the room is located in the space that for many years previously housed the CSIRO division of Minerals, Clayton library.

The CSIR Division of Aeronautics Wind Tunnel

In the late 1930s and with the possibility an upcoming world war looming the CSIR Division of Aeronautics was one of three new Divisions created by our organisation as the first extensions into the field of secondary industries.