Background
PHILLIPS, Leon was born on July 14, 1935.
PHILLIPS, Leon was born on July 14, 1935.
Born in 1935, Phillips attended Canterbury University College, from where he graduated with an Master of Science with first class honours in 1958. After a Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge and post-doctoral research at McGill University, he returned to lecture at Canterbury, rising to the rank of professor in 1966.
Lecturer, University of Canterbury 1962, Professor, of Chemistry since 1966. Visiting Professor University of Washington 1968, Monash University 1969. Visiting Fellow, Balliol College Oxford 1975, Japan Society for Promotion of Science 1984.
Visiting Scholar, Rice University, Houston 1987.
SERC Research Fellow University Birmingham 1989. Harkness Fellow 1968.
Fulbright.
Married Pamela A. Johnstone in 1959.