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Authorised form of nameStevens; Thomas Stevens (1900 - 2000)
Dates1900 - 2000
Place of birthRenfrew, Scotland
Date of birth08/10/1900
Place of deathGlasgow
Date of death12/11/2000
Research fieldChemistry
ActivityEducation:
At home by his mother; Paisley Grammar School (from age 8); Glasgow Academy (from age 15); Glasgow University; DPhil (Oxford University)
Career:
Lecturer in Chemistry, Glasgow University (1925); Senior Lecturer, Organic Chemistry (1947-1949), Reader (1949-1963), Professor (1963-1966), all at Sheffield University; retired )1965); Visiting Professor, University of Strathclyde (1966)
Memberships:
FRSE (1964)
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election21/03/1963
Age at election62
RelationshipsSon of a marine engineer; married (1949) Janet Forsyth (died 1994)
SourceSources:
Obituary, Independent (7/12/2000)
Notes:
Independent obituary has death date as 13 November 2000
Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 2003 vol 49 pp 521-538, plate, by Edwin Haslem and David G Morris
CodeNA5383
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
EC/1963/22Stevens, Thomas Stevens: certificate of election to the Royal Society
IM/GA/WRS/9130Stevens, Thomas Stevensnd
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