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The
armiger, a chemist and
physicist , now a
naturalised citizen of
the United States, was
born in Craigcefnparc in
1950, parents the late
Edward Ivor Evans and
late Mary Evans.
Married
(1st) Laura Jean Joseph,
1988; (2nd) Larisa
Hachikjana, 2004.
The
armiger’s father was a
coal miner (bronze,
silver and gold medals
of the Mines’ Rescue
Service). His mother was
the daughter of a coal
miner, Thomas Elim
Havard Jones, Head
Deacon of Elim Welsh
Baptist Chapel,
Craigcefnparc who is
said to be descended
from the Havard or
Harvard family.
Academic
qualifications:
B. Sc., first class,
(summa cum laude),
University of Wales,
Aberystwyth, 1971.
Ph. D., University of
Wales, Aberystwyth,
1974.
D. Sc., University of
Wales, Aberystwyth,
1977.
Youngest
recipient of the D. Sc.
in Britain and the
Commonwealth (2008).
The
armiger has held a
number of academic posts
including: U. K. Science
Research Council Fellow,
Oxford University, 1974
to 1976; Junior Research
Fellow of Wolfson
College Oxford, 1975;
British Ramsay Memorial
Fellow of University
College London, 1976 to
1978; Lecturer in
chemistry, University
College Swansea, 1978;
Science and Engineering
Research Council
Advanced Fellow,
University College of
Wales, Aberystwyth, 1978
to 1983; Co Founder and
First Scientific
Coordinator of the
European Molecular
Liquids Group in 1980 at
the National Physical
Laboratory; Visiting
Scientist, University of
Pisa, 1980; Fellow,
University of Wales,
Bangor, 1983 to 1985;
Pilcher Senior Fellow,
University of Wales
Swansea, 1985 to 1986;
Visiting Academic,
Trinity College Dublin,
1985 to 1986; I. B. M.
Visiting Professor,
Clementi Environment,
Kingston New York, 1986
to 1987; Leverhulme
Trust Fellow, 1985.
The
armiger is Editor in
Charge of the World
Scientific Series
"Contemporary Chemical
Physics" and the Editor
of "Contemporary Optics
and Electrodynamics",
second edition of
"Modern Nonlinear
Optics", (Wiley, New
York, in prep, 2001).His
scientific publications
include: "Molecular
Dynamics" (Wiley, 1982);
"Molecular Diffusion"
(Wiley 1984),
translated; "Memory
Function Approaches to
Stochastic Problems in
Condensed Matter"
(Wiley, 1985);
"Dynamical Processes in
Condensed Matter"
(Wiley, 1985);
"Simulation and Symmetry
in Molecular Diffusion
and Spectroscopy" (Wiley
1992); "The Photon's
Magnetic Field" (World
Scientific, 1992"; "The
Photomagneton in Quantum
Field Theory" (World
Scientific, 1994); "The
Enigmatic Photon", in
five volumes (Kluwer,
1994 to 1999);
"Classical and Quantum
Electrodynamics and the
B(3) Field" (World
Scientific, 2000) .
Editor "Modern Nonlinear
Optics", 1992, 1993,
1997.
In
2005 the armiger was
honoured to be awarded a
Civil List Pension from
the Crown for
distinguished service to
Great Britain in
science.
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