Douglas Hugh Everett
Douglas Hugh Everett
He famously (in relation to scientists) said: There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality: and then there are some who turn one into the other.[2]
Life
He was born in Hampton, London on 26 December 1916 the son of Charles Everett, who was then serving as a Captain in France in the Middlesex Regiment. His father was a bus-driver in civilian life.[3] He was educated at Hampton-on-Thames Grammar School, then studied Chemistry first at the University of Reading (graduating 1938) then postgraduate studies at Balliol College, Oxford. He was a Kitchener Scholar 1936 to 1939 and Ramsay Fellow 1939 to 1941. He gained his first doctorate (PhD) in 1942.
In the
In 1950 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Edward Copson, George Dawson Preston, David Rutherford Dow and George Howard Bell.[4]
From 1954 he settled in
The University of Reading granted him an honorary doctorate (DSc) in 1956.
He served as president of the Faraday Society 1976 to 1978.
He died in Bristol on 25 June 2002.
Family
He married Frances Elizabeth Jessop in 1942. She died in 1999. They had two daughters, Susanna and Catharine (Kate).
Publications
- The Structure and Properties of Porous Materials (1958)
- The Solid Gas Interface (1967)
- Introduction to the Study of Chemical Thermodynamics (1972)
- Basic Principles of Colloid Science (1988)
- SOE: The Scientific Secrets (published 2003) co-written with Frederic Boyce[5]
References
- ISSN 0080-4606.
- ^ "1/index". worldofquotes.com. Retrieved 28 February 2018.
- ^ "Obituary.(Douglas Hugh Everett, physical chemist)(Obituary) - Chemistry and Industry | HighBeam Research". highbeam.com. Archived from the original on 11 September 2016. Retrieved 28 February 2018.
- ISBN 0-902-198-84-X. Archived from the original(PDF) on 24 January 2013. Retrieved 25 April 2016.
- ^ "History of the school | School of Chemistry | University of Bristol". bristol.ac.uk. Retrieved 28 February 2018.