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

Early life and education

Evans was born in Wanganui in 1927. He received his secondary education at Wanganui Technical College and at

Wanganui Collegiate School Whanganui Collegiate School (formerly Wanganui Collegiate School; see here) is a state-integrated, coeducational, day and boarding, secondary school in Whanganui, Manawatū-Whanganui region, New Zealand. The school is affiliated to the Anglican c ...

. He studied at the

Canterbury Agricultural College Lincoln University (Māori: ''Te Whare Wānaka o Aoraki'') is a New Zealand university that was formed in 1990 when Lincoln College, Canterbury was made independent of the University of Canterbury. Founded in 1878, it is the oldest agricultur ...

in Lincoln from 1945 to 1950 and in 1947, he won the Hunter Brown Cup for that year's best essay on sheep husbandry. His 1950 master's thesis was on the ecology of the

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flats. 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. In 1951, he was Lincoln's second

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and went to

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. He subsequently won a Harkness Fellowship to the California Institute of Technology, a fellowship to the

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to the United States National Agricultural Library in Beltsville, Maryland, and a research fellowship to

Churchill College, Cambridge Churchill College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England. It has a primary focus on science, engineering and technology, but still retains a strong interest in the arts and humanities. In 1958, a trust was establish ...

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.Evans, Lloyd Thomas, (FAA, FRS) (1927-2015)
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Awards and honours

*1971 Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (FAA) *1974 Bledisloe Medal *1976 Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) *1978 Honorary doctorate of the University of Canterbury (

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) *1979

Officer of the Order of Australia The Order of Australia is an honour that recognises Australian citizens and other persons for outstanding achievement and service. It was established on 14 February 1975 by Elizabeth II, Queen of Australia, on the advice of the Australian Gove ...

(AO) Officer of the Order of Australia (AO)
11 June 1979, It's an Honour *2001

Centenary Medal The Centenary Medal is an award which was created by the Australian Government in 2001. It was established to commemorate the centenary of the Federation of Australia and to recognise "people who made a contribution to Australian society or go ...

Centenary Medal
1 January 2001, It's an Honour He was also a Fellow of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.

Selected publications

''Crop Evolution, Adaptation and Yield ''
Cambridge University Press, 1996,

References

External links

Interviews with Australian scientists
2003, Australian Academy of Science
Obituary
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