Graham Dixon-Lewis, MA, DPhil,FRS[1] (1 July 1922 – 5 August 2010) was a British combustion engineer.[2][3]
Dixon-Lewis was born Graham Lewis inCaerleon,Monmouthshire, the first of two children of Daniel Watson Lewis and Eleanor Jane Lewis (nee Anderson). The family name was changed to Dixon-Lewis bydeed poll in 1944. He was educated atNewport High School and read chemistry atJesus College, Oxford, from 1940 to 1944. He earned aDPhil in 1948, and studied withJohn Wilfrid Linnett.[4]
In 1953 Dixon-Lewis joined the Department of Coal Gas and Fuel Industries (later the Department of Fuel and Energy) at theUniversity of Leeds as a research chemist, ultimately being appointed aReader in 1971 and then to apersonal chair in 1978. He retired from the university in 1987 with the title ofemeritusprofessor.[5]
In 1965, Dixon-Lewis was avisiting professor at theJohns Hopkins University inBaltimore, USA. He was a visiting scientist at theSandia National Laboratories,Livermore, California in 1987 and at theMax Planck Institute,Göttingen,Germany in 1994.[6]
In 1990 Dixon-Lewis was awarded both the Egerton Gold Medal and the Silver Medal ofthe Combustion Institute. In 1993, he was the recipient of theRoyal Society of Chemistry's Award for Combustion and Hydrocarbon Oxidation Chemistry. Two years later, he was awarded the Dionizy Smolenski Medal of the Combustion Section of thePolish Academy of Sciences. In 1997 he received the Sugden Award of the British Section ofthe Combustion Institute and in 2008 he was awarded the Huw Edwards Prize of theInstitute of Physics for services to combustion physics.[6]
He was elected aFellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1995.[6]
Dixon-Lewis married Patricia Mary Best in Oxford on 15 April 1950. They had a son and two daughters.
Dixon-Lewis died suddenly at a bus stop in the centre ofLeeds on 5 August 2010 at the age of 88. He was survived by his wife and children.
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