Maxwell Irvine
Maxwell Irvine (28 February 1939 – 24 March 2012) was a British theoretical physicist and university administrator, who served as Vice-Chancellor of the Universities of Aberdeen and Birmingham.[1]
Maxwell Irvine became Professor of Theoretical Physics at Manchester University in 1983 and Dean of Science at Manchester in 1989. Irvine was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Aberdeen from 1991 to 1996. He was Vice-Chancellor of Birmingham University from 1996 to 2001. Irvine served as chairman of the nuclear physics committee of the Science Research Council and vice-president of the Institute of Physics. He was a director of the Public Health Laboratory Service. During the 1997 general election campaign, while he was Vice-Chancellor of Birmingham University, Irvine introduced Tony Blair before his keynote “education, education, education” speech.[2] However three years later Irvine published an open letter to Prime Minister Blair, criticising the government's polices towards universities.[2] Irvine married Grace Ritchie in 1962 and had a son. His hobby was hill-walking.[3]
References
- ^ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/9221905/Professor-Maxwell-Irvine.html
- ^ a b "Birmingham v-c rounds on Blair". The Times Higher Education. 23 June 2000. Retrieved 22 March 2015.
- ^ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/9221905/Professor-Maxwell-Irvine.html