Harry Irving (chemist)
Harry Munroe Napier Hetherington Irving, often cited as H. M. N. H. Irving, was a British chemist.
Irving received his DPhil from Oxford University in 1930, the same year he received his Licentiate of the Royal Academy of Music.
Irving was a lecturer and demonstrator in chemistry at Oxford University from 1930 to 1961. During the 1940s he began research into coordination chemistry. In 1953, Irving and his doctoral student Robert Williams described a periodic trend now known as the Irving–Williams Series.
Irving was Professor of Inorganic and Structural Chemistry at the University of Leeds between 1961 and 1971 and Professor of Analytical Science at the University of Cape Town between 1979 and 1985.Books authored
