Steele, Bertram Dillon (1870 - 1931)

Summary

Bertram Steele was the first Professor of Chemistry at the University of Queensland 1910-1930. Earlier he was a lecturer in chemistry at the University of Melbourne 1906-1910.

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Chronology

1898

Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc), University of Melbourne

1899

Award - 1851 Exhibition Science Research Scholarship

1902

Education - Doctor of Science (DSc), University of Melbourne

1906 - 1910

Career position - Chemistry Lecturer, University of Melbourne

1910 - 1930

Career position - First Professor of Chemistry, University of Queensland

1911

Career position - President, Section B (Chemistry, Metallurgy and Mineralogy), Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science

1912 - 1914

Career position - Member of organising committee, British Association for the Advancement of Science Meeting

1914

Career position - Vice-President, Section B (Chemistry), British Association for the Advancement of Science Meeting

1915 - 1919

Career position - University College, London

1919

Award - Fellow, The Royal Society, London (FRS)

1919 - 1930

Career position - Professor of Chemistry, University of Queensland

1921 -

Career position - Foundation Councillor (Chemistry), Australian National Research Council

1923 -

Career position - Chairman, Royal commission to investigate the prickly pear problem

Related entries

Archival resources

The University of Queensland Archives

• Bertram Dillon Steele - Records, 1910 - 1930, S135; The University of Queensland Archives. Details

Published resources

Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions

• Collins, David, Chemistry in 19th Australia - Select Bibliography, An exhibition of the Encyclopedia circa 2005 with assistance from Ailie Smith and Gavan McCarthy., eScholarship Research Centre (original publisher), Melbourne, 2009, https://eoas.info/exhibitions/ciab/ciab_ALL.html. Details

Books

• Gregory, Helen, Vivant Professores: Distinguished Members of the University of Queensland, 1910-1940 (St Lucia: University of Queensland Library, 1987), 180 pp. Details

Book Sections

• Chiswell, Barry, 'Steele, Bertram Dillon (1870-1934), Professor of Chemistry' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 12: 1891 - 1939 Smy-Z, John Ritchie, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1990), pp. 60-61. https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/steele-bertram-dillon-8638. Details

Journal Articles

• Challinor, R. W., 'Presidential address', Journal and proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales, 68 (1934), 1-35. Details
• Masson, David Orme and Steele B.D., 'The Blue Salt of Fehling's Solution and Other Cuprotartrates', Journal of the Chemical Society, London, 75 (1899), 725-734. Details
• Watkins, S.B., 'Founders of Australian Chemistry. B. D. Steele.', The Royal Australian Chemical Institute Proceedings, 25 (1958), 412-417. Details

Resources

• Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4895818. Details
• 'Steele, Bertram Dillon (1870-1934)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1468803. Details

Resource Sections

• 'Steele, Bertram Dillon', in Physics in Australia to 1945, R.W. Home, with the assistance of Paula J. Needham, Australian Science Archives Project, June 1995, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/physics/P000045p.htm. Details

See also

• Currie, George; Graham, John, The Origins of CSIRO: Science and the Commonwealth Government, 1901-1926 (Melbourne: CSIRO, 1966), 203 pp, https://doi.org/10.1071/9780643105553. pages 140. 142. 143-144. Details
• Serle, Percival, Dictionary of Australian biography (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1949). Details