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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Corporate Body created 2002-11-27 human Ailie Smith updated 2025-11-05 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/A002115b.htm corporateBody Australia Telescope National Facility - CSIRO Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation AACR2 ATNF Australian Telescope National Facility 1989 Start Place Marsfield, New South Wales, Australia Location Cnr Vimiera & Pembroke Roads, Marsfield, New South Wales 2122 Astronomy or Space Science Industrial or Scientific Research Observatory The Australia Telescope National Facility (ATNF) was created as a Division within CSIRO in 1989. It encompasses the radio astronomy observatories, telescopes and data archives within CSIRO. Sites include Murchison, Western Australia; and in New South Wales eight radio-wave receiving antennas (dishes) located at Parkes, Narrabri and Mopra. The head office of ATNF is located in Marsfield, New South Wales. In 2009 ATNF became part of CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science. CSIRO - National Facilties, Laboratories, Centres and Research Stations, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (1949 - ) CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (2009 - ) McClure-Griffiths, Naomi Melissa (1975 - )

Deputy Head of Astrophysics 2012 - 2014; Head of National Facility Science 2014 - 2015

 Green, Anne Josephine

Member, Steering Committee 2004 - 2007

 Sinclair, Malcolm W.

Head, Receiver Development Group 1983 -

 Slee, Owen Bruce (Bruce) (1924 - 2016)

Principal Research Scientist 1988 - 1989, Honorary Fellow 1989 - 2016

 Haynes, Raymond F. (1944 - )

Research Scientist (later Senior Principal Research Scientist) 1972 - 2000

 Manchester, Richard Norman (1942 - )

Chief Research Scientist 1989 - 2003; Member, Steering Committee 1991 - 1995

 Roberts, Paul P. (1969 - )

Worked on the development of the Facility's digital instrumentation

 Schmidt, Brian Paul (1967 - )

Chair, Time Allocation Committee 2002 - 2004

 Melrose, Donald Blair (1940 - )

Chairman, Steering Committee 1994 - 1997

 Gaensler, Bryan Malcolm (1973 - )

Member, Steering Committee 2007 - 2009

 Ekers, Ronald David (1941 - )

Foundation Director 1989 - 2003; Federation Fellow 2003

 Thomas, Bruce MacAulay (1937 - 2018)

Chief Research Scientist 1994 - 2002

 Koribalski, Bärbel

OCE Science Leader 2012 - 2017

 Hamilton, Philip Alexander (Pip) (1942 - )

Chair, Steering Committee 1992 - 1994

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