Graham Dixon-Lewis
Graham Dixon-Lewis, MA, DPhil, FRS was a British combustion engineer.
Early life and education
Dixon-Lewis was born Graham Lewis in Caerleon, Monmouthshire, the first of two children of Daniel Watson Lewis and Eleanor Jane Lewis. The family name was changed to Dixon-Lewis by deed poll in 1944. He was educated at Newport High School and read chemistry at Jesus College, Oxford, from 1940 to 1944. He earned a DPhil in 1948, and studied with John Wilfrid Linnett.Academic career
In 1953 Dixon-Lewis joined the Department of Coal Gas and Fuel Industries at the University of Leeds as a research chemist, ultimately being appointed a Reader in 1971 and then to a personal chair in 1978. He retired from the university in 1987 with the title of emeritus professor.In 1965, Dixon-Lewis was a visiting professor at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, USA. He was a visiting scientist at the Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, California in 1987 and at the Max Planck Institute, Göttingen, Germany in 1994.
Honours
In 1990 Dixon-Lewis was awarded both the Egerton Gold Medal and the Silver Medal of the Combustion Institute. In 1993, he was the recipient of the Royal Society of Chemistry's Award for Combustion and Hydrocarbon Oxidation Chemistry. Two years later, he was awarded the Dionizy Smolenski Medal of the Combustion Section of the Polish Academy of Sciences. In 1997 he received the Sugden Award of the British Section of the Combustion Institute and in 2008 he was awarded the Huw Edwards Prize of the Institute of Physics for services to combustion physics.He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1995.