Lewis Salter

Lewis Salter (1926–1989) was an American theoretical physicist, physics professor, and researcher. He served as the dean of Knox College for 11 years and was the twelfth president of Wabash College.

Biography Salter was born in Norman, Oklahoma. He spent three years in the United States Army during World War II, then received his undergraduate education at the University of Oklahoma, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He was selected as a Rhodes Scholar, and spent 1949 to 1953 at the University of Oxford, where he received his master's degree and doctorate in theoretical physics.

After he was diagnosed with terminal cancer, he resigned the presidency of the college and returned to teaching physics in August 1989, but he died before the fall term ended. He continued to work on research problems until his death, and had a paper published posthumously in the American Journal of Physics.