| Authorised form of name | Lewis; Wilfrid Bennett (1908 - 1987) |
| Dates | 1908 - 1987 |
| Date of birth | 24/06/1908 |
| Date of death | 10/01/1987 |
| Activity | Honours:
CBE 1946
|
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 22/03/1945 |
| Age at election | 36 |
| Royal Society activity | Medals and prizes:
Royal Medal 1972 |
| Sources | AssocMaterial:
NCUACS 8/1/89. Papers deposited in Cambridge University Library
Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1988 vol 34 pp 451-509, plate, by Sir Bernard Lovell and D G Hurst
References:
D C Martin, 'Visit by the Assistant Secretary to some North American Scientific Institutions' in NR 1952 vol 9 pp 356-364
B Lovell, 'The cavity magnetron in World War II: was the secrecy justified?' in NR 2004 vol 58 pp 283 - 294 |
| Royal Society code | NA1926 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| Reference number | Title | Date |
| PB/4/1/4 | Correspondence, mainly with Sir John Cockcroft, on personnel for teams for coastal defence radar chains | July-September 1939 |
| IM/002737 | Lewis, Wilfrid Bennett | 1958 |
| RR/55/92 | Referee's report by Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett, on a paper 'Experiments with high velocity positive ions V—Further experiments on the disintegration of boron' by John Douglas Cockcroft and Wilfrid Bennett Lewis | January 1936 |
| RR/55/91 | Referee's report by Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett, on a paper 'Experiments with high velocity positive ions VI—The disintegration of carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen by deuterons' by John Douglas Cockcroft and Wilfrid Bennett Lewis | January 1936 |
| EC/1945/12 | Lewis, Wilfrid Bennett: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| RR/66/127 | Memoranda, on a paper 'On the production of radium E and polonium by deuteron bombardment of bismuth' by D G Hurst, R Latham and Wilfrid Bennett Lewis | 3 October 1939 |