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STEELE, Bertram Dillon

Born Plymouth, Devonshire, England, 30 May 1870; died Brisbane 12 April 1934. Education, Victorian College Pharmacy (1889-91), University of Melbourne (B.Sc. 1898, D.Sc. 1902), University College London (1899-1900) and University of Breslau (1900-01). Pharmacist, Melbourne, 1891-95. Acting professor of chemistry, Adelaide University 1899. 1851 Exhibition scholar 1899-1902. Research scholar in chemistry, University College London 1901-02. Senior demonstrator in chemistry, McGill University , Canada, 1902-03; Assistant professor of chemistry, Heriot-Watt College, Edinburgh, 1903-05. Lecturer in chemistry, University of Melbourne 1906-10. Professor of chemistry, University of Queensland 1910-31. F.R.S. 1920.
  1. (With K. Grant) Sensitive micro-balances and a new method of weighing minute quantities. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, A, 82 (1909), 580-594.
  2. (Abstract) (With G.A. Ampt) Some uses of the microbalance. Society of Chemical Industry of Victoria. Proceedings., 10 (1910), 96.
  3. An automatic Toepler pump, designed to collect the gas from the apparatus being exhausted. Philosophical Magazine, S.6, 19 (1910), 863-868.
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