Background
He was born in Berlin. His mother was a Wagnerian singer who holidayed with the playwright Bertolt Brecht.
He was born in Berlin. His mother was a Wagnerian singer who holidayed with the playwright Bertolt Brecht.
University of Nottingham.
He was also a playwright. The family lived near the Tiergarten (Animal Garden) in central Berlin, and as a result often saw Joseph Goebbels walking to work. In 1936 he was sent to Buxton College, a boys" grammar school in Derbyshire.
He joined the British Army, taking the surname Evans, and was sent to Kerala where he repaired tanks, becoming a Staff Sergeant.
He later read Physics at University College, Nottingham (the University of Nottingham). He worked for most of his life at the Safety in Mines Research Establishment (SMRE) in north-west Derbyshire until 1981.
Fire-fighting foam In 1956 he carried out work on high-expansion foam to extinguish fires, which would lead directly to foam manufactured as a fire extinguishing agent. In 1964 Walter Kidde & Company (now called Kidde) bought the patents for high expansion foam.
When war broke out he was sent to the Isle of Manitoba, with future members of the Amadeus Quartet.