Harold Ralph Lewis

Harold Ralph Lewis, Jr., (7 June 1931 - 25 March 2002) was an American physicist, researcher at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, and professor at Dartmouth College. Lewis worked on Project Sherwood and conducted research in nuclear physics and plasma physics.

Lewis completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Chicago, where he earned A.B. and S.B. degrees in physics. He received his A.B. in 1951 and S.B. in 1953.

He then began his graduate studies at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where he completed his master's degree in physics in 1955 and his PhD in physics in 1958. His doctoral thesis was titled "A Method for Measuring Magnetic Fields in Superconductors," and his doctoral advisor was Hans Frauenfelder.

Career After completing his graduate studies, Lewis was a postdoctoral research associate at Heidelberg University from 1958 to 1960. During those two years, he conducted research in theoretical nuclear physics at the university's Institute for Theoretical Physics.

While at Dartmouth, Lewis published on plasma physics of nonideal magnetohydrodynamic steady states in fusion devices and on some nonlinear mechanics problems.

Other work In 1973, Lewis contributed to a six-volume translation of Wolfgang Pauli's lecture notes, Pauli Lectures on Physics, from German to English.

Awards In 1983, Lewis became a fellow of the Los Alamos National Laboratory. He was also a fellow of the American Physical Society. Other awards include:

University fellow at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 1954 Honorary M.A. from Dartmouth College, 1993

Personal life Lewis was married to Renate Lewis and they had two children. He was fluent in German, and an accomplished clarinetist and outdoorsman.