Bertram Dillon Steele FRS (30 May 1870 â 12 April 1934) was an Australian scientist, foundation professor of chemistry at the University of Queensland.
Steele was born in Plymouth, England, to Samuel Madden Steele, a surgeon, and his wife Hariette Sarah, née Acock. 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. He then practised as a pharmacist.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.
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