Lloyd Evans (plant physiologist)

Lloyd Thomas Evans AO FRS FAA (6 August 1927 – 23 March 2015) was a New Zealand plant physiologist who made his career in Australia.

Evans in 1951

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 dissertation on sheep husbandry.[2][3][4] 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 masters.[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.[5][1][6][7][8]

Awards and honours

He was also a Fellow of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.[12]

Selected publications
  • Crop Evolution, Adaptation and Yield , Cambridge University Press, 1996, ISBN 978-0-521-29558-1

References
  1. "Evans, Lloyd Thomas - Biographical entry - Encyclopedia of Australian Science".
  2. "L. T. Evans". Lincoln University. Retrieved 22 December 2019.
  3. "1934 Hunter-Brown Challenge Cup". Lincoln University. Retrieved 22 December 2019.
  4. "1974 L. T. Evans". Lincoln University. Retrieved 22 December 2019.
  5. Evans, Lloyd Thomas, (FAA, FRS) (1927-2015), trove.nla.gov.au
  6. Roderick W. King (2016). "Lloyd Thomas Evans 1927–2015" (PDF). Historical Records of Australian Science. CSIRO Publishing. 27 (2): 144–159. doi:10.1071/HR16014.
  7. "Dr Lloyd Evans (1927-2015), plant scientist | Australian Academy of Science".
  8. King, Roderick W. (2016). "Lloyd Thomas Evans AO FAA. 6 August 1927 — 23 March 2015". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. London: Royal Society. 62: 125–146. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2016.0008.
  9. "Honorary graduates" (PDF). University of Canterbury. p. 1. Retrieved 22 December 2019.
  10. Officer of the Order of Australia (AO), 11 June 1979, It's an Honour
  11. Centenary Medal, 1 January 2001, It's an Honour
  12. "Gruppe 5: Biologi". Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. Archived from the original on 8 May 2015. Retrieved 8 May 2015.
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