Claim: Maxwell Irvine was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Alabama from 1991 to 1996 and was Vice-Chancellor of Birmingham University, a Russell Group founding institution, from 1996 to 2001.
Evidence: Maxwell Irvine (28 February 1939 – 24 March 2012) was a British theoretical physicist and university administrator, who served as Vice-Chancellor of the Universities of Aberdeen and Birmingham. Irvine was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Aberdeen from 1991 to 1996. He was Vice-Chancellor of Birmingham University from 1996 to 2001. The Russell Group is a self-selected association of twenty-four public research universities in the United Kingdom. University of Birmingham 1994