Philip Evans (headmaster) explained

Ian Philip Evans OBE FRSC (born 1948) is a British educationalist and a former Headmaster of Bedford School.^[1]

Biography

Born on 2 May 1948 and educated in North Wales at Ruabon Boys Grammar school, Evans read Natural Sciences at Churchill College, Cambridge taking a first class degree and obtained a doctorate in inorganic chemistry from Imperial College London, working in the laboratory of Professor Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson.^[2] He taught chemistry at St Paul's School, London and, in 1991, he was appointed as Headmaster of Bedford School, a position which he held until the summer of 2008. He was also appointed as a government advisor on education, from which post he retired in 1999, and was subsequently awarded an OBE for his work.^[3] He was an appointed member of the council of the Royal Society of Chemistry.^[4]

Publications

• I. P. Evans, A. Spencer, & G. Wilkinson "Dichlorotetrakis(dimethyl sulfoxide)ruthenium(II) and its use as a source material for new ruthenium(II) complexes" Jrnl. Chem. Soc. Dalton Trans. (1973) 204-209 ^[5]

Notes and References

1. 'EVANS, Dr (Ian) Philip’, Who's Who 2012, A & C Black, 2012; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2011 ; online edn, Nov 2011 accessed 14 Dec 2011
2. Web site: The Royal Society of Chemistry Structure. 1 October 2014.
3. http://www.bedsonsunday.com/bedsonsunday-news/displayarticle.asp?id=46602{{dead link|date=March 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
4. Web site: The Royal Society of Chemistry Structure. 1 October 2014.
5. Web site: Dichlorotetrakis(dimethyl sulfoxide)ruthenium(II) and its use as a source material for new ruthenium(II) complexes | Mendeley . 30 December 2010 . 26 July 2011 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110726210255/http://www.mendeley.com/research/dichlorotetrakisdimethyl-sulfoxiderutheniumii-use-source-material-new-rutheniumii-complexes-4/ . dead .