The CSIR. The First 40 Years
by Kingwill, D G
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0798849398
- ISBN 13
- 9780798849395
- Seller
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Port Elizabeth, South Africa
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About This Item
(Pretoria: CSIR, 1990) 0798849398. Presentation bookplate from the CSIR mounted to half-title. 4to; original black boards; pictorial dustwrapper; pictorial endpapers; pp. xii + 352, incl. index; many portraits and other photographs, largely in monochrome, but with some colour. Dustwrapper curled to edges, with old tape marks, very scuffed on lower panel; recent archival tape repairs to reverse side; earlier owner's name signed on front free endpaper. Very good condition. "This story of the first 40 years of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) is presented in three parts. The first includes the events leading up to its establishment in 1945 and discusses the need for such a body in South Africa as seen against the background of world events, notably the impact of two world wars and the emergence in other countries of organizations with specific responsibilities for co-ordinating and developing scientific research. It continues as a chronological narrative of events which unavoidably is studded with names and dates. The second part focuses on the role of the CSIR as a national research council in promoting and supporting university, medical and industrial research, fostering international scientific co-operation and in providing scientific and technical information services. The development, organization and activities of the CSIR research laboratories, institutes and units, operating in this context as a 'contract research organization', are described in the third part." - Author's Preface. .
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- Bookseller
- Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA (ZA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6267
- Title
- The CSIR. The First 40 Years
- Author
- Kingwill, D G
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0798849398
- ISBN 13
- 9780798849395
- Publisher
- (Pretoria: CSIR, 1990) 0798849398
- Place of Publication
- Pretoria
- This edition first published
- 1990
- Keywords
- CSIR. Council for Scientific and Industrial Research. South African scientists. Basil Schonland. Science
- Bookseller catalogs
- Science;
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