Biographical entry Steele, Bertram Dillon (1870 - 1931)

Summary

Bertram Dillon Steele was the first Professor of Chemistry at the University of Queensland 1910-30. Earlier he was a lecturer in chemistry at the University of Melbourne 1906-10.

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Events

1906 - 1910

Career position - Chemistry Lecturer at the University of Melbourne

1910 - 1930

Career position - First Professor of Chemistry at the University of Queensland

Archival resources

The University of Queensland Archives

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

Published resources

Books

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

Book Sections

• Chiswell, Barry, 'Steele, Bertram Dillon (1870-1934), Professor of Chemistry', in John Ritchie (ed.), Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 12, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1990, pp. 60-61. Also available at http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A120075b.htm. Details

Journal Articles

• Masson, David Orme and Steele B.D., 'The Blue Salt of Fehling's Solution and Other Cuprotartrates', Journal of the Chemical Society, London, vol. 75, Chemical Society, London, 1899, pp. 725-734. Details
• Watkins, S.B., 'Founders of Australian Chemistry. B.d. Steele.', The Royal Australian Chemical Institute Proceedings, vol. 25, 1958, pp. 412-417. Details

Online Resources

• '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
• National Library of Australia, 'Steele, Bertram Dillon', Trove, National Library of Australia and the Australian National Maritime Museum Darling Harbour, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1468803. Details