 Upon receiving his PhD (the title of his thesis was “Pattern Perception and the Stabilised Retinal Image”), he went to the Division of Computer Science, National Physical Laboratory, Teddington, in 1964, where he remained until his death from cancer in 1979.He had two children, Christopher Samuel Evans and Victoria Evans-Theiler.In 1979, Christopher Evans wrote a book about the oncoming microcomputer revolution, "The Mighty Micro