Harry Irving (chemist)

Harry Munroe Napier Hetherington Irving (1905 – 1993 in Cape Town[1]), often cited as H. M. N. H. Irving, was a British chemist.

Irving received his DPhil from Oxford University (from which he also held an MA and DSc) in 1930, the same year he received his Licentiate of the Royal Academy of Music.[2]

Irving was a lecturer and demonstrator in chemistry at Oxford University from 1930 to 1961. During the 1940s he began research into coordination chemistry.[2] In 1953, Irving and his doctoral student Robert Williams described a periodic trend now known as the Irving–Williams Series.[3]

Irving was Professor of Inorganic and Structural Chemistry at the University of Leeds between 1961 and 1971[4] and Professor of Analytical Science at the University of Cape Town between 1979 and 1985.[2]

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

References
  1. "Obituary: Harry Irving". The Independent. 16 July 1993. Retrieved 14 August 2015.
  2. Hutton, A. T. (January 1994). "Harry Irving Hon. FRSSAf". Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa. 49 (2): 256–258. doi:10.1080/00359199409520314.
  3. Irving, H. M. N. H.; Williams, R. J. P. (1953). "The stability of transition-metal complexes". J. Chem. Soc.: 3192–3210. doi:10.1039/JR9530003192.
  4. University of Leeds, Calendar, 1961-62, page 162
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