Personal Profile
Denis Evans was a CSIRO Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Oxford, a Research Fellow at Cornell University and a Fulbright Fellow at the National Bureau of Standards (USA) during 1979 and 1980. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science and has won numerous awards, including the Frederick White Prize of the Australian Academy of Sciences (1990), the H. G. Smith Medal of the RACI (2000). the Boys-Rahman Lectureship of the Royal Society of Chemistry (2000), a Centenary Medal from the Australian Government and the Moyal Medal for distinguished contributions to mathematics, physics or statistics from Macquarie University.
He is also a keen bushwalker and photographer.
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