School of Chemistry, The Queen's University of Belfast, Belfast BT9 5AG
Northern Ireland, U.K.

Dr. Frederick Alastair Lewis was born in Belfast in 1926. After military service over 1944–1947, Lewis studied at Queen's University Belfast for primary degrees of B.Sc and Ph.D under research direction of Professor A.R.J.P. Ubbelohde F.R.S. over 1950–1954. Over 1954–1956 he accompanied Ubbelohde to Imperial College London. They subsequently collaborated in publication of “Graphite and Its Crystal Compounds”, A.R. Ubbelohde and F.A. Lewis, Oxford University Press 1960.

In 1956 Lewis returned to Queen's University as lecturer and then Reader in Inorganic Chemistry. Research continued from 1950 on Metal Hydrogen Systems including publication of “The Palladium–Hydrogen Systems” Academic Press 1969. At present Dr. Lewis holds publications committee membership of “Defect and Diffusion Data” and of the “International Journal of Hydrogen Energy ”.

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