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Catherine Money was Group Manager of CSIRO Textile and Fibre Technology’s Leather Research Centre at Clayton. In 2001, she was appointed Officer-in-Charge, CSIRO Leather Research Centre.
Enid was the first female appointed to the Physical Chemistry Section of the CSIR Division of Industrial Chemistry at the age of 21.
John Stocker held the position of Chief Executive at CSIRO from 1990 to 1995
The 93.9 metre research vessel, which weighs 6,082 ton, was moved from the wharf to a barge using a hydraulic system, and then towed to a dock, where the barge was submerged, leaving the vessel floating.
In July 1969, the Parkes Observatory played an important role in history, when it received and broadcast the first Moon landing, Apollo 11.
Carbon dioxide emission reductions required to limit global warming to 2°C are becoming a receding goal based on new figures […]
Mary Ann Augustin has had several science leadership and multi-disciplinary project leader roles at CSIRO. Her main area of research is in protein structure and immunoparasitology.
Mr. Lightfoot came to Australia in 1906 and joined the Commonwealth Bureau of Census and Statistics where he was responsible for establishing the Bureau's Labour and Industrial Branch and extending it to the main industrial centres of the Commonwealth.
Ruby Payne-Scott was an Australian pioneer in radio physics and radio astronomy, and is believed to have been the first female radio astronomer.
Keith Leslie and The LANDTEM Team (CSIRO Materials Science and Engineering). For a significant world’s first scientific and technical outcome in the development of the LANDTEM system for minerals exploration based on High Temperature Superconducting devices known as SQUIDs.
PIRAT - remote sensing system for sewers.
CoalTrol, an advanced process control system for coal preparation plants. By using signals from COALSCAN (another CSIRO system for analysing ash content in coal), the CoalTrol system makes adjustments in plant equipment to ensure the plant produces coal with the specified ash content.
