Dewi Meirion Lewis

Dewi Meirion Lewis is a Welsh physicist. He has worked in nuclear research and is an internationally recognized expert in radioactive pharmaceuticals.

Early life and education

Dewi M. Lewis was brought up in Harlech, Merionethshire. He is Welsh speaking and attended Harlech Primary School where his father was headmaster and Ysgol Ardudwy, the secondary school in Harlech. He was awarded the Lady Catherine James scholarship for Merionethshire, after achieving the highest A-level marks in the county. He went to Swansea University to study Physics. As an undergraduate, Lewis was one of the University of Wales student volunteers at Aberfan on the first day of the mining disaster in October 1966. He received a first-class honours degree in Physics from Swansea in 1969, and was the first Swansea University PhD student to start research on positrons - the antimatter of electrons.

Memberships, fellowships, and other professional activities He ran the Brussels-based Isotope and Reactor Committee for several years and was a Council member of the UK Research Councils, PPARC and CCLRC. He is a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales and of the Institute of Physics.

Personal life Lewis married Elizabeth Mary Williams in 1972. They have one daughter and two sons.