P007543 revised AU-VU:EOAS Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation

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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Corporate Body created 2024-12-02 human Gavan McCarthy updated 2025-10-22 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P007543b.htm corporateBody CSIR Council Council for Scientific and Industrial Research AACR2 1926 1949 Start Place Melbourne, Victoria, Australia End Place Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Scientific advisor to government The "Science and Industry Research Act 1926" placed the control of the Commonwealth's activities in the field of scientific and industrial research in the hands of a "Council". It was a corporate body consisting of: three members nominated by the Minister (one as Chairman) and appointed by the Governor-General; the Chairman of each State Committee of the Council; and other members co-opted with the consent of the Minister by reason of their scientific knowledge.

Members included: [from CSIROpedia]
Andrews, Roderic Stafford 1948-1949
Ashby, Edwin 1944-1945
Bell, Arthur Frank 1948-1949
Brodribb, Noel Kenric Stevens 1938-1949
Brown, Harry 1944-1949
Burnet, Frank Macfarlane 1947-1949
Cameron, Samuel Sherwin 1926
Clunies Ross, William Ian 1942-1949
Colman, George Stanley 1934-1943
Cook, G.A. 1926-1927
Dakin, William John 1944-1949
Darnell-Smith, George Percy 1926-1927
Donaldson, R.J. 1941-1947
Eady, T.W. 1942-1947
Easterby, Harry Tinniswood 1926-1927
Field, T.E. 1936-1941
Foster, Francis.Henry 1943-1948
Gibson, A.J. 1946-1949
Gillies, C.L. 1926-1927
Goddard, E.J. 1926-1941
Goodes, H.J. 1949
Graham, A.E. 1926
Grant, Kerr 1944-1948
Grimwade, W. Russell 1932-1942
Harper, P.H. 1943-1949
Hartung, Ernest Johannes 1942-1948
Holden, Edward Wheewall 1942-1944
Julius, George Alfred 1926-1944
Keam, P.E. 1928-1942
Kelly, W.S. 1944-1949
Kessell, Stephen Lackey (Kim) 1948-1949
Lefroy, Edward Henry Bruce 1933-1949
Leighton, A.E. 1927-1930
Lightfoor, Gordon (sic) 1926-1949
Madsen, John Percival Vissing 1943-1949
Masson, David Orme 1927-1937
Mountjoy, D.A. 1946-1949
Mullett, H.A. 1926
Myers, D.M. 1949

Robertson, Thorburn Brailsford 1927-1928

 Brown, Harry Percy (1878 - 1967)

Member 1944-1949; CSIRO Advisory Council 1950-1952

 Rivett, Albert Cherbury David (David) (1885 - 1961)

Deputy Chairman 1927 - 1945; Chairman 1946 - 1949

 Darnell-Smith, George Percy (1868 - 1942)

Member 1926-1927

 Dakin, William John (John) (1883 - 1950)

Member 1944-1949

 Cook, G. A

Member 1926-1927

 Clunies Ross, William Ian (1899 - 1959)

Member 1942 - 1949

 Easterby, Harry Tinniswood (1867 - 1932)

Member 1926-1927

 Burnet, Frank Macfarlane (1899 - 1985)

Member 1947-1949; Member CSIRO Advisory Council 1950-1956

 Foster, Francis Henry (1888 - 1979)

Member 1943-1948

 Brodribb, Noel Kenric Stevens (1885 - 1965)

Member 1938-1949; Member CSIRO Advisory Council 1950-1952

 Robertson, Thorburn Brailsford (1884 - 1930)

Member 1927-1928

 Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Commonwealth of Australia (1926 - 1949) Conference convened by the Prime Minister, S.M. Bruce, to consider the reorganisation of the Commonwealth Institute of Science and Industry, 30 May and 1 June 1925 Watt, Robert Dickie (1881 - 1965)

Member 1926 - 1941; Chair, New South Wales Committee 1926 - 1941

 Wadham, Samuel MacMahon (1891 - 1972)

Member 1926 - 1949

 Cameron, Samuel Sherwen (1866 - 1933)

Member 1926

 Kessell, Stephen Lackey (1897 - 1979)

Member 1948-1949; Member CSIRO Advisory Council 1950-1955

 Newbigin, William Johnstone (1874 - 1927)

Member of Executive (part time) April 1926 - April 1927

 Bell, Arthur Frank (1899 - 1958)

Member 1948-1949; Chairman, Queensland State Committee 1949-1955

 Myers, David Milton (1911 - 1999)

Member 1949; Member CSIRO Advisory Council 1950-1956

 Masson, David Orme (1858 - 1937)

Member 1927-1937

 Madsen, John Percival Vissing (1879 - 1969)

Member 1943-1949; Member CSIRO Advisory Council 1950-1956

 Eady, Marshall Thomas Wilton (1882 - 1947)

Member 1942-1947

 Leighton, Arthur Edgar (1873 - 1961)

Member 1927-1930

 Goddard, Ernest James (1883 - 1948)

Member of Council 1926 - 1941

 Julius, George Alfred (1873 - 1946)

Chairman part-time April 1926 - 31 December 1945

 Holden, Edward Wheewall (1885 - 1947)

Member 1942-1944

 Hartung, Ernst Johannes (1893 - 1979)

Member 1942-1948

 Grimwade, Wilfrid Russell (1879 - 1955)

Member 1932-1942

 Grant, Kerr (1878 - 1967)

Member 1944-1948

 Gibson, Alexander James (1876 - 1960)

Member 1946-1949; Member CSIRO Advisory Council 1949-1950

 Lightfoot, Gerald (1877 - 1966)

Member 1926-1949

 'CSIR Council', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology CSIR Council Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Resource Section: Council members Council members Canberra, ACT Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Organisation 2023 CSIROpedia Colin Ward