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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Corporate Body created 2000-07-06 human Ailie Smith updated 2026-02-12 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/A000682b.htm corporateBody CSIR/O Division of Physics Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation AACR2 1945 1973 Start Place Chippendale, New South Wales, Australia Location Chippendale, New South Wales Industrial or Scientific Research The CSIR/O Division of Physics, previously the CSIR Physics Section, was part of the CSIR/O National Standards Laboratory, along with the Divisions of Metrology and Electrotechnology. At the conclusion of the Second World War the Physics Section became the Division of Physics. Almost thirty years later, in 1974, the National Standards Laboratory was renamed the National Measurement Laboratory. This incorporated the Divisions of Physics and Applied Physics. The Division of Applied Physics reappeared in 1980, when the National Measurement Laboratory was renamed.

From "CSIRO research for Australia" (1962) pdf page 50-51:
"The Division of Physic is responsible for the standards of temperature, photometry hygrometry and viscometry, and it also maintains the Cnternational Temperature Scale. A number of ingenious and novel techniques and instruments have been devised for measuring these quantities. A typical example is a fast, accurate and convenient hygrometer which can be used to obtain relative humidjty readings within two minutes. The Division's officers visit industrial establishments to calibrate thermometers and pyrometers in situ. Well-attended courses in temperature control are held for technicians from industry.

Fundamental research includes work on solid state physics and solar physics. The solid state programme is designed for the study of the physical properties of both metallic and insulating substances, and the inter-atomic forces which determine these properties. The solar physics work is aimed at finding out how corona flares and other visible changes in the sun's surface are related to phenomena directly affecting such things as radio communications on Earth."

 CSIR - Divisions, Sections and Units, Council For Scientific and Indusrial Research (1926 - 1949) CSIRO - Divisions, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (1949 - c. 2014) National Standards Laboratory - CSIR/O, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (1939 - 1973) CSIR Physics Section, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (1939 - 1945) Constable, Gregory

Senior Research Scientist, Cotton Management and Improvement Program 1991 - 2015

 Harper, Arthur Frederick Alan (1913 - 1991)

Senior Principal Research Scientist 1957 - 1971

 White, Guy Kendall (1925 - 2018)

Research Officer 1950 - 1953; Principal Research Scientist 1958 - 1962; Senior Principal Research Scientist 1962 - 1969

 Giovanelli, Ronald Gordon (1915 - 1984)

Chief of the Division 1958 - 1974; Senior Research Fellow 1974 - 1976

 CSIRO Division of Applied Physics [I], Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (1962 - 1974) Mather, Keith Benson (1922 - 2003)

Research Officer, Atomic Physics Section 1952 - 1954

 CSIR/O Division of Electrotechnology, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (1945 - 1962) Piddington, John Hobart (1910 - 1997)

Chief Research Scientist 1966 - 1975

 Bray, Robert John (1929 - )

Principal Research Scientist 1969 - 1980

 Briggs, George Henry (1893 - 1987)

Chief 17 April 1945 - 28 November 1958.

 CSIR/O Division of Metrology, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (1945 - 1962) National Measurement Laboratory - CSIRO, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (1974 - 1979)

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 'CSIR/O Division of Physics', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology CSIR/O Division of Physics Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Book: CSIRO research for Australia: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization CSIRO CSIRO research for Australia: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization Canberra Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Organisation 1962 Book: Historical Directory of Council for Scientific and Industrial Research and Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, 1926-1976 Schedvin, C.B; Trace, K. Historical Directory of Council for Scientific and Industrial Research and Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, 1926-1976 Canberra CSIRO 1978 Resource Section: Primary description of agency CA 4377; CSIRO, Division of Applied Physics. Registration of entity: 23 September 1987 Primary description of agency CA 4377; CSIRO, Division of Applied Physics. Registration of entity: 23 September 1987 National Archives of Australia 2000 RecordSearch