Harry Irving (chemist)
{{short description|British chemist}}
{{Infobox scientist
| honorific_prefix =
| name = Harry Munroe Napier Hetherington Irving
| birth_date = {{birth date|1905|11|19|df=y}}
| birth_place = Oxford, England
| death_date = {{death date and age|1993|06|20|1905|11|19|df=y}}
| death_place = Cape Town, South Africa
| nationality =British
| fields =Chemistry
| workplaces =University of Oxford
University of Leeds
University of Cape Town
| alma_mater = The Queen's College, Oxford
}}
Harry Munroe Napier Hetherington Irving (19 November 1905 in Oxford – 20 June 1993 in Cape Town{{cite news|title=Obituary: Harry Irving|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-harry-irving-1485203.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220509/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-harry-irving-1485203.html |archive-date=2022-05-09 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|accessdate=14 August 2015|agency=The Independent|date=16 July 1993}}), often cited as H. M. N. H. Irving, was a British chemist.
Education
As a student as The Queen's College, Oxford, Irving received a BA in 1928 and a DPhil in 1930, the same year he received his Licentiate of the Royal Academy of Music. In 1954, he was awarded a DSc.
Career
Irving was a lecturer and demonstrator in chemistry at Oxford University from 1930 to 1961. He was also the Vice Principal of St Edmund Hall.{{rp|163}}
During the 1940s he began research into coordination chemistry. In 1953, Irving and his doctoral student Robert Williams described a periodic trend now known as the Irving–Williams Series.
Irving was Professor of Inorganic and Structural Chemistry at the University of Leeds between 1961 and 1971[http://digital.library.leeds.ac.uk/12786/1/LUA-PUB-003-3-86_000.pdf University of Leeds, Calendar, 1961-62, page 162] and Professor of Analytical Science at the University of Cape Town between 1979 and 1985.
Private life
Irving was a Freemason under the United Grand Lodge of England. Initiated in the Churchill Lodge No 478 (Oxford), he later joined the Apollo University Lodge No 357 (Oxford),{{cite book |title=Oxford Freemasons: A Social History of Apollo University Lodge |first1=Joe Mordaunt |last1=Crook |first2=James W |last2=Daniel |edition=First |url= |location= |publisher=Bodleian Library, University of Oxford |year=2019 |isbn=978-1-85124-467-6}}{{rp|163}} to which he was proposed by fellow Oxford scientist Bertram Maurice Hobby.{{rp|163}} Irving served at different times as Worshipful Master of both lodges.
Books authored
- H. M. N. H. Irving, H. Freiser and T. S. West, Compendium of analytical nomenclature : definitive rules, Pergamon Press 1977
- H. M. N. H. Irving, The Techniques of Analytical Chemistry: Short Historical Survey, Science Museum 1974
- H. M. N. H. Irving, Dithizone, Royal Society of Chemistry, 1977
External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20160303182545/http://wwwchem.uwimona.edu.jm:1104/courses/IrvWill.html Irving-Williams Series - Transition Metal Chemistry]
References
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{{cite journal |last=Irving | first = H. M. N. H.|author2=Williams, R. J. P.|year=1953|title=The stability of transition-metal complexes|journal=J. Chem. Soc.|pages=3192–3210|doi=10.1039/JR9530003192 }}
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Category:Fellows of the Royal Society of Chemistry
Category:Fellows of the Royal Society of South Africa
Category:Alumni of the Queen's College, Oxford
Category:Alumni of the Royal Academy of Music
Category:Fellows of St Edmund Hall, Oxford
Category:Academics of the University of Leeds
Category:Academic staff of the University of Cape Town