Biographical entry Steel, William Howard (Beattie) (1920 - 2004)
- Born
- 1920
- Died
- 2004
- Occupation
- Physicist
- Alternative Names
- Steel, Beattie (Also known as)
Summary
Beattie Steel worked on optical munitions design for the Optical Munitions Panel and became an international expert in interferometry. Beattie Steel was the first chairman of the Australian Optical Society and served as president of the International Commission for Optics.
Details
Events
- 1940s
- Career position - Australasian Wireless Association
- 1940
- Education - Mathematics and Physics studies at the University of Melbourne
- c. 1945 - 1985
- Career position - Joined the CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation) National Standards Laboratory
- 1953
- Education - Awarded Physics Doctorate from Sorbonne University, Paris France
- 1972 - 1975
- Career position - President of the International Commission for Optics
- 1983
- Chair - First chairperson of the Australian Optical Society
- 1985
- Award - Received the Mees Medal of the Optical Society of America
- 1986 -
- Career position - Honorary Professorial Fellow at Macquarie University
- 2004
- Award (posthumous) - Highest Award from the Australian Optical Society renamed 'The Australian Optical Society W. H. (Beattie) Steel Medal'.
Related entries
Published resources
Encyclopedia of Australian Science Exhibitions
- The Giant's Eye: the Optical Munitions Exhibition, Australian Science Archives Project, 1997, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/exhib/omp/omp.htm. Details
Journal Articles
- 'International Honours', Ad-Astra The Geelong College Newsletter, no. 54, 1985, p. 3. Also available at http://gnet.geelongcollege.vic.edu.au:8080/wiki/GetFile.aspx?File=%2fAd_Astra_No_54_December_1985_reduced.pdf. Details
- Steel, W. H., 'Optics in Australia', Australian Physicist, vol. 24, 1987, pp. 242-245. Details
Online Resources
- 'STEEL, Dr William Howard 'Beattie' (1920 - 2004)', in Heritage Guide to The Geelong College, Lannan, Con, The Geelong College, http://gnet.geelongcollege.vic.edu.au:8080/wiki/STEEL-William-Howard-Beattie-1920-2004.ashx. Details
- 'Steel, W.H.', 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/steel.htm. Details
- 'Obituaries', Ad-Astra The Geelong College Newsletter, no. 107, 2005, p. 29, https://issuu.com/geelongcollege/docs/ad_astra_no_107_january_2005_reduce. Details
- 'Steel, W H (1920-)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1294115. Details
See also
- Piddington, John Hobart, 'Ronald Gordon Giovanelli 1915-84', Historical Records of Australian Science, vol. 6, no. 2, 1985, pp. 223-236. Also available at http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/HR9850620223.htm. Details
Rosanne Walker
Created: 30 June 1997, Last modified: 4 July 2017