Meredith Evans

Background

Meredith Gwynne Evans was born in Atherton, a suburb of Manchester, on 2 December 1904 and the son of Frederick George Evans, an elementary schoolmaster, and his wife, Margaretta Eleanora Williams.

Education

Meredith Gwynne Evans attented the elementary school at which his father was Headmaster, won a County Scholarship to Leigh Grammar School, and was educated at the University of Manchester.

Career

Together with Henry Eyring and Michael Polanyi, Meredith Gwynne Evans is one of the founders of the transition state theory. Meredith Gwynne Evans was appointed Assistant Lecturer at University of Manchester from 1929 until 1939, when he became Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Leeds. His returned to the University of Manchester in 1949.

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1947.

M.G. Evans died on 25 December 1952 in Manchester.

Achievements

• Meredith Gwynne Evans attented the elementary school at which his father was Headmaster, won a County Scholarship to Leigh Grammar School, and was educated at the University of Manchester.

Membership

Royal Society.