William Evans, Baron Energlyn

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William David Evans, Baron Energlyn FRGS FGS (* 25. Dezember 1912; † 27. Juni 1985) war ein britischer Geologe. Im Jahr 1968 wurde er als Life Peer aufgrund des Life Peerages Act 1958 Mitglied des House of Lords. rdf:langString
William David Evans, Baron Energlyn (25 December 1912 – 27 June 1985) was a Welsh geologist who became a life peer. Evans attended and then University College Cardiff, before working for the Geological Survey of Great Britain. In 1945, he joined the Regional Survey Board of Ministry of Fuel and Power for the South Wales Coalfield, then in 1947 he became a lecturer at the University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire. In 1949, he moved to the University of Nottingham, becoming dean of the faculty of pure science, and then professor of geology. rdf:langString
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rdf:langString William David Evans, Baron Energlyn FRGS FGS (* 25. Dezember 1912; † 27. Juni 1985) war ein britischer Geologe. Im Jahr 1968 wurde er als Life Peer aufgrund des Life Peerages Act 1958 Mitglied des House of Lords.
rdf:langString William David Evans, Baron Energlyn (25 December 1912 – 27 June 1985) was a Welsh geologist who became a life peer. Evans attended and then University College Cardiff, before working for the Geological Survey of Great Britain. In 1945, he joined the Regional Survey Board of Ministry of Fuel and Power for the South Wales Coalfield, then in 1947 he became a lecturer at the University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire. In 1949, he moved to the University of Nottingham, becoming dean of the faculty of pure science, and then professor of geology. Evans discovered vitricin, an antibiotic which could be obtained from coal, and developed several new geological techniques, including pyrochromotography, photogrammetry, and membrane colorimetry. He published a number of books on geology, and also studied diseases caused by coal dust. On 10 July 1968, Evans was created a life peer as Baron Energlyn, of Caerphilly in the County of Glamorgan.
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