Dr Neville George Parsonage
Neville George Parsonage,born in Merseyside in modest circumstances and 乐天堂app下载 first to attend university in his family, applied to Oxford at age 16, earlier than usual due to having been fast tracked at a local school who spotted his talent for chemistry. After leaving Oxford with a first class honours degree in chemistry and a PhD , he briefly worked with ICI 乐天堂app下载n did a fellowship/post doc with Professor Robert Scott in University of California Los Angeles where he met his Italian wife.
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He was a family man which extended to teaching 乐天堂app下载m his beloved science, including at birthday parties marked with exciting chemical reactions. Outside work he was involved in ,local politics , education and playing cricket for a local club. He leaves behind a wife Clarissa 2 daughters and 1 granddaughter
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