Meredith Gwynne Evans

Meredith Gwynne Evans
Evans in 1949
Born(1904-12-02)2 December 1904
Died25 December 1952(1952-12-25) (aged 48)
Alma materUniversity of Manchester
Known fortransition state theory
AwardsFellow of the Royal Society
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of Leeds
Princeton University
University of Manchester
Doctoral advisorArthur Lapworth
Doctoral studentsNoel Hush
George Porter
Alec Sehon
Huw O. Pritchard

Meredith Gwynne Evans, FRS (2 December 1904 – 25 December 1952) was a British physical chemist, who made important theoretical contributions in the study of chemical reaction rates and reaction mechanisms. Together with Henry Eyring and Michael Polanyi, Meredith Gwynne Evans is one of the founders of the transition state theory.


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