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Harold ("Hal") Warren Lewis (born October 1, 1923, in New York City;〔(Oral History Transcript--Harold Lewis ) at the Center for History of Physics, American Institute of Physics〕 died May 26, 2011) was an Emeritus Professor of Physics and former department chairman at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). In 2010, after 67 years of membership, Lewis resigned from the American Physical Society, writing in a letter about the "corruption" from "the money flood" of government grants.〔(Lewis: My Resignation From The American Physical Society ), 08 October 2010, GWPF site (archived copy accessed 12/30/13)〕 ==Career as a physicist== He entered New York University in 1940 and graduated in physics. He earned a masters degree from the University of California, Berkeley from 1943 to 1944 before joining the Navy, where he served in World War II as an electronics technician.〔 After the war, he returned to the University of California, Berkeley, and earned his Ph.D. in Physics studying under J. Robert Oppenheimer. His focus was high energy physics (cosmic rays and elementary particles). He, along with the other theoretical physics professors at Berkeley, refused to sign the McCarthy era loyalty oath on principle, and in 1950 went to Princeton. Later, when offered reinstatement at Berkeley, he chose instead to accept a position at Bell Labs where he did research on superconducting materials. In 1956 he left Bell Labs to join the University of Wisconsin, Madison to work on solid state physics and plasmas. In 1964, he left to join the University of California, Santa Barbara as a full professor, and later chairman, in their growing physics department. He retired from UCSB in 1991.〔 He wrote a text on the trade-offs between technological advances and risks,〔H. W. Lewis, ''Technological Risk'', W.W.Norton, 1992 ISBN 0-393-30829-4〕 and also authored a popular book on decision making.〔H. W. Lewis, ''Why Flip a Coin: The Art and Science of Good Decisions'', Wiley, 1997 ISBN 0-471-16597-2〕 In 1991 Harold Lewis won the Science Writing Award for his book 'Technological Risk'.〔〔(AIP Science Writing Award winners )〕 Lewis was chairman of the JASON Defense Advisory Group from 1966 to 1973, when he worked on the issue of missile defense.〔 He was a long-term member of the Defense Science Board (DSB),〔 and chaired a 1985 DSB Task Force (with Stephen Schneider) on nuclear winter.〔Lawrence Badash, 2009, ''A nuclear winter's tale: science and politics in the 1980s'', (p. 163 ). MIT Press, ISBN 0-262-01272-3〕 Lewis was active in the field of safety of nuclear power plants. In 1975, he chaired a year-long study of light-water reactor safety for the American Physical Society (APS). Lewis chaired the 1977-1979 Risk Assessment Review for the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Harold Lewis」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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