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3 unusual facts about Department of Scientific and Industrial Research


HortResearch

HortResearch was originally part of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR), but was established as an independent organisation when the Crown Research Institutes were created in 1992.

Industrial Research Limited

It was established in 1992 when the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research was disbanded and its staff and assets redistributed to form the research institutes.

Joan Dingley

She worked for the DSIR


Greta Stevenson

Returning to New Zealand, while her children were young she was employed with the Wellington City Council as an analyst and a soil microbiologist for the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research soil bureau.

Harrie Massey

Massey left the Admiralty in 1943 to join the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research mission at Berkeley, California, in connection with the Manhattan Project.

Leonard Woodward

After teaching at the University of Nottingham and the University of Manchester, he worked for the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research in the Fuel Research Station.


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