Bertram Steele

Bertram Dillon Steele FRS^[1] (30 May 1870 – 12 April 1934) was an Australian scientist, foundation professor of chemistry at the University of Queensland.^[2][3][4]

Bertram Dillon Steele
Steele in 1911
Born	(1870-05-30)30 May 1870 Plymouth, Devon, England
Died	12 April 1934(1934-04-12) (aged 63)
Alma mater	Victorian College of Pharmacy, University of Melbourne,
Scientific career
Fields	Chemist

Steele was born in Plymouth, England, to Samuel Madden Steele, a surgeon, and his wife Hariette Sarah, née Acock.^[2] Steele was educated at the Plymouth Grammar School; he then began an apprenticeship with his father. Steele migrated to Australia in 1889. He studied as apharmaceutical chemist at the Victorian College of Pharmacy where he won a gold medal in 1890.^[5] He then practised as a pharmacist.

Prof Steele, later in life

A major building fronting the Great Court of the University of Queensland is named for him. An annual lecture is given in his name at the university, since 1982.^[6]