Robert Edward Lewis

Background

Lewis, Robert Edward was born on November 18, 1917 in Liberty, Missouri, United States. Son of Walter Oliver and Jessie Clementine (Thompson) Lewis.

Education

Associate of Arts, Kansas City Junior College, Missouri, 1937. Bachelor of Science, University Chicago, 1939. Postgraduate, University Chicago, 1940.

Postgraduate, Illinois Institute of Technology, 1940. Postgraduate, Illinois Institute of Technology, 1950. Postgraduate, Illinois Institute of Technology, 1952.

Postgraduate, University Rochester, 1957.

Career

Physicist Illinois Institute of Technology Research Institute, Chicago, 1945—1952. Chief engineer Schneider-Cogswell, Inc., 1952—1955. Senior engineer applied science division University Chicago, 1955—1957.

Supervisor fiber optics Bausch & Lomb, Inc., Rochester, New York, 1957—1959. Senior optical engineer Beckman & Whitley, San Carlos, California, 1959—1961. Manager electro-photo-optics Teledyne Semicondr.

Company, Mountain View, 1961—1972. Design engineer Timelapse, Inc., 1973—1977, consultant photo-optical instrumentation engineering Palo Alto, California, since 1977.

Achievements

• Robert Edward Lewis has been listed as a noteworthy engineering consultant by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Professional and Technology Consultant Association, Society Motion Picture and television Engineers, Society Photograph Scientists and Engineers, Society Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (Karl Fairbanks award 1967, President's award 1978), Optical Society America, Sigma Xi.

Connections

Married Mary Elisabeth Woolsey, November 24, 1941. Children: Donn Owens, Randon Woolsey, Steven Brunsen.

Father:

Walter Oliver Lewis

Mother:

Jessie Clementine (Thompson) Lewis

Spouse:

Mary Elisabeth Woolsey

child:

Donn Owens Lewis

child:

Steven Brunsen Lewis

child:

Randon Woolsey Lewis