Jason Farradane (born Jason Lewkowitsch; 29 September 1906 – 27 June 1989)[1] was a British librarian of Polish descent.
[2] The son of the chemical engineer Julius Lewkowitsch,[3] Farradane graduated in chemistry in 1929 at what is now Imperial College London and started work in industry as a chemist and documentalist.
After working in research at the Ministry of Supply and the Admiralty during World War II, he first made an impact with a paper on the scientific approach to documentation at a Royal Society Scientific Information Conference in 1948.
Of Central European origin, his commitment to science was reflected in the name he created for himself – a combination of Faraday and Haldane, two scientists he particularly admired.
On the research side his main contributions lay in relational analysis, a precursor to work in the area of artificial intelligence, and the concept of information.