Evans, Lloyd Thomas (1927 - 2015)

Summary

Lloyd Evans was Chief, Division of Plant Industry, CSIRO, Canberra 1971-1978 and President of the Australian Academy of Science 1978-1982. Evans was renowned for his research on the regulation of flowering and on crop production, including the identification of a gibberellin plant hormone.

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Chronology

1940

Education - MAgrSc, Canterbury University College, Christchurch, New Zealand

1948

Education - Bachelor of Agricultural Science (BAgSc), Canterbury University College, Christchurch, New Zealand

1949

Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc), Canterbury University College, Christchurch, New Zealand

1951

Award - Rhodes Scholarship, Brasenose College, Oxford, United Kingdom

1954

Education - DPhil, University of Oxford

1954 - 1956

Career position - Commonwealth Fund Harkness Fellow, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, U.S.A.

1956 - 1992?

Career position - Research scientist, CSIRO Division of Plant Industry

1963 - 1964

Career position - National Academy of Sciences Pioneer Fellow in Plant Physiology, USDA, Beltsville, Maryland, U.S.A.

1969 - 1970

Career position - Overseas Fellow, Churchill College, Cambridge University

1971 - 1973

Career position - President, Australian Society of Plant Physiologists

1971 - 1978

Career position - Chief, CSIRO Division of Plant Industry

1971 - 2015

Award - Fellow, Australian Academy of Science (FAA)

1973

Education - Doctor of Science (DSc), Canterbury University ,Christchurch, New Zealand

1974

Award - Bledisloe Medal, Lincoln College, New Zealand

1976 - 1977

Career position - President, Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science

1976 - 2015

Award - Fellow, Royal Society, London

1977 - 1982

Career position - Chairman, Board of Standards for Australian Journals of Scientific Research, CSIRO

1978

Career position - Visiting Fellow, Wolfson College, Cambridge University

1978

Award - Australian Medal of Agricultural Science, Australian Institute of Agricultural Science

1978 - 1982

Career position - President, Australian Academy of Science

1978 - 1983

Career position - Member, Technical Advisory Committee, Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR)

1979

Career position - President, Section M (Botany), Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science

1979

Award - Farrer Memorial Medal, Farrer Memorial Trust

1979

Award - Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in recognition of service to science

1980 - 2015

Award - Fellow, Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science

1982 - 1987

Career position - Member, Board of Trustees, International Foundation for Science, Stockholm, Sweden

1982 - 1988

Career position - Foundation Member, Policy Advisory Council, Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR)

1986 - 2015

Award - Honorary Member, Royal Society of New Zealand

1992 - 1995

Career position - Director, Canberra Office, Australian Science Archives Project

1993 - 2015

Award - Fellow, Australian Institution Agricultural Science

1996

Award - Fellow, Australian Institute of Agricultural Science

1997 - 2015

Award - Fellow, Australian Institute of Agricultural Science and Technology

1 Jan 2001

Award - Centenary Medal - for service to Australian society and science in plant research

2004

Award - Adolph E. Gude, Jr Award, American Society of Plant biologists

Related entries

Archival resources

Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science

• Lloyd Thomas Evans - Records, MS 213; Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science. Details

Private hands (Evans, L.T.)

• Lloyd Thomas Evans - Records, 1956 - 1987; Private hands (Evans, L.T.). Details

Published resources

Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions

• Smith, Ailie, Adolph Basser Library Manuscript Collection, eScholarship Research Centre, Melbourne, 2012, https://www.eoas.info/exhibitions/basser/basser_browse.html. Details

Journal Articles

• 'Obituaries: Lloyd Evans, Michael Powell, Mike Raupach, Ian Ritchie', Newsletter, Australian Academy of Science, 100 (2015), https://www.science.org.au/academy-newsletter/australian-academy-science-newsletter-100/obituaries. Details
• Evans, L. T., 'Fifty Years of Plant Research', Nature, 261 (5562) (1976), 655-657. Details
• Evans, L. T., 'Respones to challenge: William Farrer and the making of wheat', Journal of the Australian Institute of Agricultural Science, 46 (1) (1980), 3-13. Details
• Evans, Lloyd, 'Otto Herzberg Frankel 1900-1998', Historical Records of Australian Science, 12 (4) (1999), 495-516. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR9991240495. Details
• Evans, Lloyd, 'Conjectures, refutations and extrapolations', Annual Review of Plant Biology, 54 (2003), 1-21. Details
• Evans, Lloyd T., 'Sir Otto Herzberg Frankel 4 November 1900 - 21 November 1998: elected F.R.S. 1953', Biographical memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, 45 (1999), 165-81. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbm.1999.0012. Details
• Fischer, A. R. (Tony), 'Professor Colin Donald and Dr Lloyd Evans: two great Australian agricultural scientists from the second half of the last century', Agricultural science, 31 (2) (2020), 10-6. Details
• King, Roderick W., 'Lloyd Thomas Evans AO FAA, 6 August 1927 - 23 March 2015', Biographical memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, 62 (2016), 125-46. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbm.2016.0008. Details
• King, Roderick W., 'Lloyd Thomas Evans 1927 - 2015', Historical Records of Australian Science, 27 (2) (2016), 144-59, https://doi.org/10.1071/HR16014. Details

Resources

• Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6662416. Details
• VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/71540688. Details
• 'Evans, Lloyd Thomas (1927 - 2015)', The Academy's Fellows [including profiles and other relevant links], Australian Academy of Science, Canberra, 2019, https://www.science.org.au/profile/lloyd-evans. Details
• 'Evans, L T (1927-)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-615811. Details

Resource Sections

• Crompton, Bob, 'Interview with Dr Lloyd Evans, plant scientist', in Interviews with Australian scientists, Australian Academy of Science, 2003, https://www.science.org.au/learning/general-audience/history/interviews-australian-scientists/dr-lloyd-evans-1927-2015-plant. Details
• Ward, C., 'Lloyd Thomas Evans', in CSIROpedia, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), 2011, https://csiropedia.csiro.au/Evans-Lloyd-Thomas. Details

See also

• 'Evans, Lloyd Thomas (1927 - 2015)', Farrer Memorial Trust Medal recipients and orations, New South Wales Department of Primary Industries, Sydney, 2023, https://www.dpi.nsw.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0011/596099/farrer_oration_1979_dr_lt_evans.pdf. https://www.dpi.nsw.gov.au/about-us/who-we-are/interacting_2/farrer-memorial-trust/farrer-memorial-trust-medal-recipients-and-orations. Details