About W. Deming Lewis
Lived 1915 – 1989 (aged 73–74). W. Deming Lewis was an American academic administrator and management engineer.
Willard Deming Lewis was an American academic who served as the tenth president of Lehigh University from 1964 to 1982. During which most of the modern campus of Lehigh was constructed, earning him the moniker of the man who "made Lehigh great."
Biography Early life Lewis was born in 1915 to Willard Lewis, and Constance née Deming in Augusta, Georgia. During his time at Bell, Deming had thirty-three U.S. patents to his name on components and systems such as microwave filters, antennas, and digital error detection. Lewis remarried to Emmaline Hoffman in 1966, gaining two step-children.
Lehigh's Physics building, Lewis Lab, was named after him.
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American university president
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W. Deming Lewis was born in 1915.
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W. Deming Lewis died in 1989 in Bethlehem.
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W. Deming Lewis was an academic administrator and management engineer.
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