DSIR
Subtitle: making science work for New Zealand : themes from the history of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, 1926-1992
By: Ross Galbreath.
Contributors: New Zealand. Dept. of Internal Affairs. Historical Branch.
Publisher: Victoria University Press in association with the Historical Branch, Dept. of Internal Affairs
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Wellington [N.Z.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 299
Subjects: New Zealand. Dept. of Scientific and Industrial Research -- History.; Research -- New Zealand -- History.
Other titles: DSIR, making science work for New Zealand; Making science work for New Zealand
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-292) and index.
Table of contents: title: Science in a small Dominion : the background to the establishment of DSIR; title: Bread and circuses : the science and politics of wheat breeding; title: A grassland utopia? : pastoral farming and grassland research in New Zealand; title: Natural enemies : biological control of pests and weeds; title: Science mobilises for war : the New Zealand radar programme; title: The atom bomb effect : nuclear science in war and peace; title: New Zealand steel; title: Science in the shaky isles; title: Science for the public good : the development and the dismantling of DSIR.