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The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) is a South African scientific research and development (R&D) organisation. It was established by an act of parliament in 1945 and is situated on its campus in Pretoria . [ 3 ]
The bursaries cover the tuition fees, accommodation, and food and travel allowances for "full time" students, and only tuition fees for "part time" students. [ 10 ] In 2019, as of 20 November 2019 [update] , NSFAS had received 365,922 applications for financial aid in 2020, compared to the 278,738 applications it had received the year prior.
N. Kalaiselvi is the present Director General of CSIR-cum-Secretary DSIR, Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India. [6] In terms of Intellectual property, CSIR has 2971 patents in force internationally and 1592 patents in force in India. [4] CSIR is granted more than 14000 patents worldwide since its inception.
It was established on 1 April 1999 as an autonomous statutory body in accordance with the National Research Foundation Act.Dr Fulufhelo Nelwamondo has been appointed as Chief Executive Officer of the National Research Foundation of South Africa with effect from 1 April 2021.
He completed his undergraduate studies in physics and, in 1971, received his MSc (cum laude) in oceanography at the University of Cape Town and was awarded the Harry Crossley Bursary, the Fisheries Development Corporation postgraduate overseas bursary and the CSIR overseas bursary to study for a PhD at the University of Washington, where he ...
He went to work at the CSIR in Pretoria in 1947 under the supervision of Stefan Meiring Naudé. He was awarded a bursary by the CSIR to study in Britain. [1] Between 1947 and 1949, he did a PhD in theoretical solid state physics at the University of Bristol [3] under Nevill Francis Mott.
The maiden flight of CSIR-NAL's light trainer aircraft, now called Hansa, took place on 17 November 1993. The aircraft is an ab-initio two-seat, all-composite aircraft, certified by the DGCA in the year 2000 under JAR-VLA certification. DGCA has promoted the use of the Hansa-3 by various flying clubs; a total of fourteen aircraft are in operation.
The CSIR Mk 1 ran its first program in 1949, the fifth electronic computer in the world. It was over 1,000 times faster than the mechanical calculators available at the time. It was decommissioned in 1955 and recommissioned in Melbourne as CSIRAC in 1956 as a general purpose computing machine used by over 700 projects until 1964. [ 24 ]