5-494: Ledwith is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Anthony Ledwith (1933–2015), British chemist Martin Ledwith , British actor and acting coach Micheál Ledwith , Irish Roman Catholic priest Mike Ledwith (1874–1929), American baseball player Thomas A. Ledwith (1840–1898), American lawyer and politician [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with
10-460: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Anthony Ledwith Anthony Ledwith CBE FRS (4 August 1933 – 5 January 2015) was a British chemist . Anthony Ledwith was born on 14 August 1933 in Goose Green, Greater Manchester to Thomas Ledwith and Mary Clare (née Coghlin) Thomas Ledwith was killed in a railway accident when Anthony was four and his brother Thomas
15-679: The University of Liverpool . Here he was introduced to and became expert in the field of polymers, and was awarded the higher degree in 1957. He stayed on at Liverpool and became a lecturer, and was promoted to senior lecturer, reader and professor in turn, becoming Campbell Brown Professor of Industrial Chemistry in 1980. In 1984 Ledwith left academic life for a while to become Deputy Director, then Director, of Group Research at Pilkington plc. Not surprisingly, polymer coatings for glass were of particular interest to him. After retirement from Pilkington in 1996, he returned to academia as Professor and Head of
20-410: The surname Ledwith . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ledwith&oldid=939503134 " Category : Surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description
25-553: Was two. Ledwith was educated locally: St Cuthbert's Primary School (1938–1945); Wigan Junior Technical School (1945–1948); and Wigan District Mining and Technical College (1948–1954). He was, with local help, able to go to London to take practical and written exams of the Royal Institute of Chemistry, which lasted a week. He was successful, and later in 1954 was also awarded a London University BSc External Honours degree. Ledwith joined C. E. H. Bawn ’s group to study for his PhD at
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