Professor Geoffrey Hewitt is one of the well-known names in the field of heat transfer, two-phase flow, and nuclear engineering and is well respected among his colleagues in the heat-transfer and nuclear-engineering community all over the world. He was born on January 3, 1934. He received B.Sc. Tech. and Ph.D. degrees in 1954 and 1957, respectively, from the University of Manchester Institute of Science & Technology (UMIST).
After finishing his Ph.D. degree in 1957, Professor Hewitt joined United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA), Chemical Engineering Division, Atomic Energy Research Establishment (AERE), Harwell Laboratory, Oxfordshire, as a Scientist in 1957, and was appointed as a Division Head in 1976. He was the Founder and Head for one of Harwell’s largest commercial projects, Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow Service (HTFS), within the period of 1968–1982. He started his academic life in the Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College of London, as a...
