P002683 revised AU-VU:EOAS Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation

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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 1997-06-30 human Rosanne Walker updated 2025-04-23 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P002683b.htm person Steel William Howard AACR2 Steel, Beattie 1920 2004 Physicist 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. The W. H. (Beattie) Steel Medal is awarded occasionally by the Society to recognise outstanding contributions to the field of optics in Australia and New Zealand. 1940s 1940s Career position - Australasian Wireless Association 1940 1940 Education - Mathematics and Physics studies, University of Melbourne c. 1945 1985 Career position - Joined the CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation) National Standards Laboratory 1953 1953 Education - Doctor of Science (DSc), Sorbonne University, Paris, France 1972 1975 Career position - President, International Commission for Optics 1983 1983 Career Position - First chairperson of the Australian Optical Society 1985 1985 Award - Mees Medal of the Optical Society of America 1986 Career position - Honorary Professorial Fellow at Macquarie University 2004 2004 Award (posthumous) - Highest Award from the Australian Optical Society renamed 'The Australian Optical Society W. H. (Beattie) Steel Medal'. W. H. (Beattie) Steel Medal, Australian Optical Society (1995 - )

The Australian Optical Society has awarded the Medal since 1995 (known, prior to 2004, as the Society's Medal)

 Australian Optical Society (1983 - )

Inaugural Chairman 1983

 National Standards Laboratory - CSIR/O, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (1939 - 1973)

1945 - 1974; and then the National Measurement Laboratory 1974 - 1985

 Optical Munitions Panel (1940 - 1945)

Associated with the Panel, 1940 - c1945, through his work as a researcher in optics at the University of Melbourne [under Professor Thomas Laby]

 Steel, W H (1920-)

Trove

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