Esserman, Norman Abraham (1896 - 1982)

Chronology

1916	Bachelor of Science (BSc) completed at the University of Sydney
1916 - 1918	Member of the Australian munitions team in the UK
1918 - 1919	Educated at the Royal College of Science in London
1923 - 1938	Physicist at the Munitions Supply Laboratories in Maribyrnong, Victoria
1935 - 1936	President of the Royal Society of Victoria
1939 - 1945	Officer-in-charge of the Metrology Section of the National Standards Laboratory
1940	Member of the Optical Munitions Panel
1940 - 1958	Officer-in-charge of the National Standards Laboratory
1944	Member of the Optical Advisory Panel to Ministry of Post-War Reconstruction
1944 - 1945	Chairman of the New South Wales Division of the Institute of Physics, Australian branch
1945 - 1961	Chief of the CSIR (Council for Scientific and Industrial Research) Division of Metrology
1958 - 1961	Director of the National Standards Laboratory
1961	First Jack Finlay National Award received from the Institution of Production Engineers
1964	Chairman of the Optical Munitions Technical Advisory Committee, Department of Defence Production

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• 'Esserman, Norman Abraham', in The Giant's Eye: the Optical Munitions Exhibition, A Bright Sparcs Exhibition, Australian Science Archives Project, 1997, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/exhib/omp/people/esserman.htm. [ Details ]

• Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Technology in Australia 1788-1988, Online edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, 3 May 2000, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/tia/scripts/tia-dynindex.php3?EID=P001646. [ Details ]
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• Mellor, D.P., 'Optical Munitions', Chapter 12 in Australia in the War of 1939-1945, Series 4: Civil, volume 5 'The Role of Science and Industry', Canberra: Australian War Memorial, 1958, 1958, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/exhib/papers/mellor.htm. [ Details ]