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REFERENCE has made in Nature of April 30, p. 671, to impending changes in the conduct of Government research in Australia. As from May 19, 1949, the Australian Council for Scientific and Industrial Research will be known as the Common-wealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation. This announcement was made on behalf of the Australian Government by the Hon. J. J. Dedman, Minister in Charge, who also announced the following appointments to the Executive of the Organisation: the chairman will be Dr. Ian Clunies Ross ; the chief executive officer, Dr. F. W. G. White. Both were previously members of the Executive of the Commonwealth Council for Scientific and Industrial Research. They succeed Sir David Rivett and Dr. A. E. V. Richardson respectively. The new appointments will be for seven years. The third full-time executive member will be Dr. S. H. Bastow, formerly chief of the Division of Tribophysics, whose appointment will
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Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia. Nature 164, 223 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/164223a0
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