American information scientist. Immigrated to the USA in 1959; Worked as information specialist by the National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, Md., 1965-68; professor, U. Ill., Urbana, 1972-92 prof. emeritus, U. Ill., Urbana, 1992-.F. W. Lancaster is in particular known for his work on online retrieval including evaluation studies of the MEDLARS-system. He has, however, an unusual broad and comprehensive authorship in Library and Information Science (LIS). Citação