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Harry Munroe Napier Hetherington Irving(* 1905; † 1993 in Cape Town^[1]), often cited as H. M. N. H. Irving, was a British chemist.

Irving received his PhD in 1930 from Oxford University, the same year he received his Licentiate of the Royal Academy of Music.^[2] Between 1930-1961 Irving was employed as a lecturer and demonstrator in chemistry at Oxford university, and during the 1940s began research into coordination chemistry.^[2] In 1953, Irving and his doctoral student Robert Williams described a periodic trend now known as the Irving-Wililams Series.^[3] Irving was Chair of Inorganic and Structural Chemistry at the University of Leeds between 1961 and 1971, and Chair of Analytical Science at the University of Cape Town between 1979 and 1985.^[2]

Books authored[edit]

H. M. N. H. Irving, H. Freiser and T. S. West, Compendium of analytical nomenclature : definitive rules, Pergamon Press 1977
H. M. N. H. Irving, The Techniques of Analytical Chemistry: Short Historical Survey, Science Museum 1974
H. M. N. H. Irving, Dithizone, Royal Society of Chemistry, 1977

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References[edit]

^ "Obituary: Harry Irving". The Independent. 16 July 1993. Retrieved 14 August 2015.
^ ^a ^b ^c Hutton, A. T. (January 1994). "Harry Irving Hon. FRSSAf". Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa. 49 (2): 256–258. doi:10.1080/00359199409520314.
^ Irving, H. M. N. H.; Williams, R. J. P. (1953). "The stability of transition-metal complexes". J. Chem. Soc.: 3192–3210. doi:10.1039/JR9530003192.

Category:1905 births Category:English chemists Category:South African chemists Category:Fellows of the Royal Society of Chemistry Category:Fellows of the Royal Society of South Africa Category:Royal Academy of Music Category:1993 deaths

[The_Independent_Obit-1] "Obituary: Harry Irving". The Independent. 16 July 1993. Retrieved 14 August 2015.

[RSSAf_1994-2] Hutton, A. T. (January 1994). "Harry Irving Hon. FRSSAf". Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa. 49 (2): 256–258. doi:10.1080/00359199409520314.

[Irving_1953-3] Irving, H. M. N. H.; Williams, R. J. P. (1953). "The stability of transition-metal complexes". J. Chem. Soc.: 3192–3210. doi:10.1039/JR9530003192.

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