Geoffrey Hewitt

Geoffrey Frederick Hewitt FRS (3 January 1934 – 18 January 2019) was a British chemical engineer, and Emeritus Professor at Imperial College London, where from 1993 to 1999 he was the Courtaulds Professor of chemical engineering.

Life Hewitt attended Boteler Grammar School, Warrington

He died 18 January 2019.

Honours Hewitt received honorary degrees from the University of Louvain (1988), and Heriot Watt University (1995). He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 1984, and became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1989, He was President of the IChemE for 1989–1990 and received its M. M. Sharma Medal for his contributions in 2017.

Works Encyclopedia of Heat and Mass Transfer, Hemisphere Publ. Corp., 1986, Introduction to Nuclear Power, Taylor & Francis, 1 March 1987,