Ian Philip Evans OBE FRSC (born 1948) is a British educationalist and a former Headmaster of Bedford School.[1]
Biography
editBorn on 2 May 1948 and educated in North Wales at Ruabon Boys Grammar school, Evans read Natural Sciences at Churchill College, Cambridge taking a first class degree and obtained a doctorate in inorganic chemistry from Imperial College London, working in the laboratory of Professor Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson.[2] He taught chemistry at St Paul's School, London and, in 1991, he was appointed as Headmaster of Bedford School, a position which he held until the summer of 2008. He was also appointed as a government advisor on education, from which post he retired in 1999, and was subsequently awarded an OBE for his work.[3] He was an appointed member of the council of the Royal Society of Chemistry.[4]
Publications
edit- I. P. Evans, A. Spencer, & G. Wilkinson "Dichlorotetrakis(dimethyl sulfoxide)ruthenium(II) and its use as a source material for new ruthenium(II) complexes" Jrnl. Chem. Soc. Dalton Trans. (1973) 204-209 [5]
References
edit- ^ 'EVANS, Dr (Ian) Philip’, Who's Who 2012, A & C Black, 2012; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2011; online edn, Nov 2011 accessed 14 Dec 2011
- ^ "The Royal Society of Chemistry Structure". Retrieved 1 October 2014.
- ^ http://www.bedsonsunday.com/bedsonsunday-news/displayarticle.asp?id=46602[permanent dead link]
- ^ "The Royal Society of Chemistry Structure". Retrieved 1 October 2014.
- ^ "Dichlorotetrakis(dimethyl sulfoxide)ruthenium(II) and its use as a source material for new ruthenium(II) complexes | Mendeley". Archived from the original on 26 July 2011. Retrieved 30 December 2010.
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