Biographical entry Steel, W.H. (1920 - )

Summary

W. H. Steel worked on optical munitions design for the Optical Munitions Panel and became an international expert in interferometry.

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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

1972 - 1975

Career position - President of the International Commission for Optics

1986 -

Career position - Honorary Professorial Fellow at Macquarie University

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

• Steel, W. H., 'Optics in Australia', Australian Physicist, vol. 24, 1987, pp. 242-245. Details

Online Resources

• '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
• '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