New Zealand plant physiologist (1927–2015)
Evans in 1951 Lloyd Thomas Evans AO FRS FAA (6 August 1927 – 23 March 2015) was a New Zealand plant physiologist who made his career in Australia.
Early life and education Evans was born in Wanganui in 1927.[1] He received his secondary education at Wanganui Technical College and at Wanganui Collegiate School . He studied at the Canterbury Agricultural College in Lincoln from 1945 to 1950 and in 1947, he won the Hunter Brown Cup for that year's best essay on sheep husbandry.[2] [3] [4] His 1950 master's thesis was on the ecology of the Lake Ellesmere flats.[5] In 1948, he represented Lincoln at the Joynt Scroll, a debating competition between New Zealand universities; he also won that year's Hunter Brown Cup. He achieved first class honours in field husbandry and in 1950, he was a part-time lecturer in agricultural botany while completing his master's degree.[2] In 1951, he was Lincoln's second Rhodes Scholar and went to Brasenose College, Oxford . He subsequently won a Harkness Fellowship to the California Institute of Technology , a fellowship to the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to the United States National Agricultural Library in Beltsville, Maryland , and a research fellowship to Churchill College, Cambridge .[4]
Career He was Chief of the Division of Plant Industry, at Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation , (CSIRO) from 1971 to 1978, and President of the Australian Academy of Science from 1978 to 1982.[6] [1] [7] [8] [9]
Awards and honours He was also a Fellow of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters .[13]
Selected publications Crop Evolution, Adaptation and Yield , Cambridge University Press, 1996, ISBN 978-0-521-29558-1
References ^ a b "Evans, Lloyd Thomas - Biographical entry - Encyclopedia of Australian Science". ^ a b "L. T. Evans". Lincoln University . Retrieved 22 December 2019 . ^ "1934 Hunter-Brown Challenge Cup". Lincoln University . Retrieved 22 December 2019 . ^ a b c "1974 L. T. Evans". Lincoln University . Retrieved 22 December 2019 . ^ Evans, L. (1950). The ecology of the Ellesmere Lake flats : a study of edaphic succession (Masters thesis). Research@Lincoln, University of Canterbury. hdl:10182/2270. ^ Evans, Lloyd Thomas, (FAA, FRS) (1927-2015), trove.nla.gov.au ^ Roderick W. King (2016). "Lloyd Thomas Evans 1927–2015" (PDF) . Historical Records of Australian Science . 27 (2). CSIRO Publishing: 144–159. doi:10.1071/HR16014. ^ a b "Dr Lloyd Evans (1927-2015), plant scientist | Australian Academy of Science". ^ a b King, Roderick W. (2016). "Lloyd Thomas Evans AO FAA. 6 August 1927 — 23 March 2015". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society . 62 . London: Royal Society : 125–146. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2016.0008 . ^ "Honorary graduates" (PDF) . University of Canterbury. p. 1. Retrieved 22 December 2019 . ^ Officer of the Order of Australia (AO), 11 June 1979, It's an Honour ^ Centenary Medal, 1 January 2001, It's an Honour ^ "Gruppe 5: Biologi". Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters . Archived from the original on 23 September 2015. Retrieved 8 May 2015 .
External links Interviews with Australian scientists, 2003, Australian Academy of Science Obituary, Australian Academy of Science