Harry Hallam (academic)

Harry Evans Hallam (d. 1977) was a chemist and academic at the University College of Swansea.

[1] In 1955 Hallam was appointed to the staff of the Department of Chemistry at University College of Swansea becoming Senior Lecturer in 1964 and Reader in 1970.

[2] In 1963, Hallam took a year's sabbatical and became an adviser in physical chemistry at the new University of Nigeria at Nsukka.

[1] In his memory, an endowment for an annual lecture to take a "particular account would be taken of Harry’s interest in spectroscopy" was created in 1977 with an appeal made for donations in the Journal of Molecular Structure.

The lectureship is administered by the South Wales West Local Section of the Royal Society of Chemistry.