Background
He was born at 15 Kay Street, Atherton, Lancashire. His father was a headmaster and his mother a schoolteacher.
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David Evans
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He then studied at the University of Manchester from 1930 to 1933, and graduated with a degree in physics and chemistry. He gained his Master of Science in 1934 and finished his Doctor of Philosophy in 1938.
Career
Evans left Leigh grammar school in 1928 and spent two years with the British Cotton Growers" Association. In 1940 he began working at the National Institute for Medical Research (NIMR) in London. In 1947 to become a reader in the bacteriology department at the University of Manchester, but returned to the NIMR in 1955 as director of the biological standards department.
In 1961 he became professor of bacteriology and immunology at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.
In 1971-1972 Evans was director of the Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine and struggled in vain to save its Chelsea laboratory from financial failure. He left in 1972 to become director of the National Institute for Biological Standards and Control to prepare for its 1976 move to South Mimms.
In 1976 he taught medical students at Oxford University in the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology until retirement to North Wales in 1979. He was awarded Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1969 and knighted in 1977.
He retired in 1979. He died at Llandrillo-yn-Rhos (Engineer: Rhos-on-Sea), Denbighshire, North Wales.
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Membership
Royal Society.
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Nationality
United Kingdom
Awards
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Fellow of the Royal Society Buchanan Medal
The Buchanan Medal is awarded by the Royal Society every year 'in recognition of distinguished contribution to the medical sciences generally'.The Buchanan Medal is awarded by the Royal Society every year 'in recognition of distinguished contribution to the medical sciences generally'.