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	Peter Lewis gained a National Diploma in Poultry Husbandry at Harper Adams Agricultural College, UK in 1964 and was awarded a PhD for his studies of interrupted lighting for laying hens at the University of Bristol in 1987. He has been a technical advisor for three primary poultry breeding companies, lectured in poultry management and been involved in commercial broiler management. He has been secretary of the UK Branch of WPSA, Assistant Editor of World’s Poultry Science Journal and is currently a director of British Poultry Science. Peter has held research fellowships at the Universities of Bristol and Reading, and is now a Research Fellow at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa researching the responses of broiler breeders to lighting. Peter is also an Adjunct Professor at the University of Guelph in Canada. He has produced more than 80 papers in scientific journals, most of which have been concerned with lighting and has presented papers at various world congresses and regional conferences. Trevor Morris read Agriculture at the University of Reading and then, after postgraduate training in Poultry Husbandry, joined the staff of the Department of Agriculture at Reading. He retired from the same Department 43 years later, having devoted his time to teaching and research in poultry science and collecting PhD and DSc degrees along the way. He is now an Emeritus Professor of the University of Reading. He has won numerous scientific and industrial awards for his research and served as President of the UK Branch of the WPSA and Senior Vice-President of the world association. His publications include books on energy requirements of poultry, poultry immunology, experimental design in the animal sciences and more than 200 refereed papers in scientific journals, about half of which deal with some aspect of photoperiodism. list In 1995, the authors, together with Dr Graham Perry, were awarded the Tom Newman Memorial medal for their contributions to our knowledge of poultry lighting.