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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Arthur first joined CSIRO in Brisbane with the Division of Soils in 1950 as a technical assistant and completed a science degree, again while working. He then obtained first class honours and an MSc. He was awarded a CSIRO Overseas Studentship to study for a D Phil. at Oxford in the laboratory of RK Schofield. The subject of his D Phil was phosphate sorption on soil materials.
Courtesy of the West Australian newspaper While the WA mining industry was reinvigorated in the 1960s, expert minds were assessing […]
My supervisor in Cambridge , a distinguished electrochemist, directed me towards CSIRO because, in his opinion, it had one the […]
CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency, has appointed Professor Bronwyn Fox as Chief Scientist, close to 30 years after she began her career with CSIRO as a research assistant.