About Harry Irving
Lived 1905 – 1993 (aged 87). Harry Irving was a British chemist.
Harry Munroe Napier Hetherington Irving (19 November 1905 in Oxford ), often cited as H. M. N. H. Irving, was a British chemist.
Education As a student as The Queen's College, Oxford, Irving received a BA in 1928 and a DPhil in 1930, the same year he received his Licentiate of the Royal Academy of Music. In 1954, he was awarded a DSc. and Professor of Analytical Science at the University of Cape Town between 1979 and 1985. to which he was proposed by fellow Oxford scientist Bertram Maurice Hobby.
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Who was Harry Irving?
British chemist (1905–1993)
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Harry Irving was born on 19 November 1905 in Oxford.
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Harry Irving died on 20 June 1993 in Cape Town.
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Harry Irving was a chemist.
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