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History

Forestry and Forest Products Divisions

Originally established by the Federal Government in 1919 as the Forest Products Laboratory it became part of CSIR in 1928 […]

Plant Research Divisions

The current Division of Plant Industry had its origins in the following strands: the Division of Economic Botany the Commonwealth […]

Food and Nutritional Sciences Divisions

CSIRO’s research in food and nutrition had its origins from three sources: the Cold Storage Investigations Section established in 1926 […]

Mathematics, Informatics and Statistics

The Division of Mathematics, Informatics & Statistics had its origins as the Biometrics Section of CSIR, established in 1941. In […]

Energy Divisions

CSIRO’s current energy research has evolved from six sources: the CSIR Coal Survey Section a section of the Division of […]

Chemical and Materials Research Divisions

The source of most of the Divisions devoted to chemical and materials research was the Division of Industrial Chemistry. In […]

Division of Materials Science and Engineering

The Division of Materials Science and Engineering (CMSE) was formed in 2007 by the merger of the Division of Manufacturing […]

Divisions and Business Units A-Z

A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | […]

The Collaborative Crystallisation Centre

Collaborative Crystallisation Centre

The Bio21 Collaborative Crystallisation Centre was established through the co-ordinated activities of officials from two State Government Departments (Innovation and […]

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