Authorised form of name | Steele; Bertram Dillon (1870 - 1934) |
Dates | 1870 - 1934 |
Place of birth | Plymouth, Devon, England |
Date of birth | 30 May 1870 |
Place of death | Brisbane, Australia |
Date of death | 12/04/1934 |
Occupation | Pharmaceutical chemist |
Activity | Education: University of Melbourne. BSc; DSc Career: The family moved to Victoria, Australia (1889); Chemistry tutor at colleges affiliated to University of Melbourne (from 1896); Acting Professor of Chemistry, University of Adelaide; Research Scholar (1909) in London, Breslau, McGill University, Montreal, and Heriot Watt College, Edinburgh; Senior Lecturer in Chemistry, University of Melbourne (1906); constructed a micro-balance sensitive enough to estimate radium emanation; Professor of Chemistry, University of Queensland (1910); war work included development of a new gas mask, British Ministry of Munitions (1915-1919); resigned his chair on health grounds (1931)
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Membership category | Fellow |
Date of election | 15/05/1919 |
Relationships | Married Amy Woodhead of Melbourne |
Source | Sources: Bulloch's Roll; AE Obituaries: Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 1932-1935 vol l pp 345-348, plate, by Sir David Orme Masson References: R W Home, 'The Royal Society and the Empire: the colonial and Commonwealth Fellowship. Part 2. After 1847' in NR 2003 vol 57 pp 47-84 |
Code | NA5954 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNo | Title | Date |
EC/1919/11 | Steele, Bertram Dillon: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
RR/15/259 | Referee's report by William Cecil Dampier Whetham, on a paper 'The measurement of ionic velocities' by Bertram Dillon Steele | June 1901 |
RR/15/261 | Referee's report by James Walker, on a paper 'The measurement of ionic velocities' by Bertram Dillon Steele | June 1901 |
RR/15/258 | Referee's report by Oliver Joseph Lodge, on a paper 'The measurement of ionic velocities' by Bertram Dillon Steele | 31 May 1901 |
RR/16/294 | Referee's report by William Cecil Dampier Whetham, on a paper 'The accurate measurement of ionic velocities' by R B Denison and Bertram Dillon Steele | October 1905 |
RR/16/392 | Referee's report by William Cecil Dampier Whetham, on a paper 'The halogen hydrides as conducting solvents, parts I, II, III, and IV' by D McIntosh, Bertram Dillon Steele, and E H Archibald | February 1905 |
NLB/32/42 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr Bertram Dillon Steele, Heriot-Watt College, Edinburgh | 15 December 1905 |
NLB/32/28 | Copy letter from Joseph Larmor, to Dr R B Denison and Dr Betram Dillon Steele | 14 December 1905 |
NLB/37/50 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Sir William Ramsay KCB, FRS | 16 January 1908 |
NLB/57/383 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor BD [Bertram Dillon] Steele, FRS | 29 October 1919 |
NLB/71/20 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. [Bertram Dillon] Steele, FRS | 5 December 1927 |
RR/16/393 | Referee's report by James Gordon MacGregor, on a paper 'The halogen hydrides as conducting solvents, parts I, II, III, and IV' by D McIntosh, Bertram Dillon Steele, and E H Archibald | 25 February 1905 |