- Lewis Elton
Lewis R. B. Elton (born
25 March 1923 ) is a German-born British physicist and researcher into education, specialising inhigher education .Born Ludwig Ehrenberg in
Tübingen to the scholars Victor Ehrenberg andEva Dorothea Sommer , his (Jewish) family moved toPrague in 1929, and from there to England in February 1939, to escape the threat ofNazism . He changed his name to Lewis Elton during theSecond World War , after which he obtained British citizenship.He was Professor of Physics at Battersea College of Technology from 1964 until 1970. As the College completed its transformation into the
University of Surrey (and its relocation fromBattersea toGuildford ) in 1970 he became Professor of Higher Education, a post he held until 1988. In 1994 he was appointed Professor of Higher Education atUniversity College London , where he founded the Higher Education Research and Development Unit (now the Centre for the Advancement of Learning and Teaching). He became an honorary professor there in 2003. He was appointed Visiting Professor of Higher Education atManchester University in August 2005.He is a Fellow of the
American Institute of Physics and a Fellow of theSociety for Research into Higher Education . He was awarded a Lifetime Achievement award at the 2005 Times Higher Awards [http://www.thes.co.uk/Awards/2005/] , at which Baroness Kennedy said "there is a polymath quality to this man that points to someone interested in educating the whole person" [http://www.campus.manchester.ac.uk/medialibrary/unilife/volume3-issue3.pdf] .His brother was the noted historian
Geoffrey Elton ; he is father toBen Elton , the comedian and author.:"See also:
Ehrenberg "External links
* [http://www.ucl.ac.uk/calt/homepages/LewisElton.htm Biography at University College London]
* [http://www.ied.edu.hk/loap/Prof_Lewis%20Elton.htm Biography at the Hong Kong Institute of Education]
* [http://www.sussex.ac.uk/Units/cgjs/archive/elton_intro.shtml His family papers at Sussex University]
* [http://portal.surrey.ac.uk/portal/page?_pageid=887,373545&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL The Lewis Elton Gallery]
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