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  1. Gilbert Newton Lewis ForMemRS (October 23 or October 25, 1875 – March 23, 1946) was an American physical chemist and a dean of the college of chemistry at University of California, Berkeley. [3] [7] Lewis was best known for his discovery of the covalent bond and his concept of electron pairs ; his Lewis dot structures and other contributions to valence bond theory have shaped modern theories ...

  2. Gilbert N. Lewis (born Oct. 23, 1875, Weymouth, Mass., U.S.—died March 23, 1946, Berkeley, Calif.) was an American physical chemist best known for his contributions to chemical thermodynamics, the electron-pair model of the covalent bond, the electronic theory of acids and bases, the separation and study of deuterium and its compounds, and ...

  3. The subject of chemical bonding is at the heart of chemistry. In 1916 Gilbert Newton Lewis (1875–1946) published his seminal paper suggesting that a chemical bond is a pair of electrons shared by two atoms. Once physicists studying the structure of the atom began to realize that the electrons surrounding the nucleus had a special arrangement ...

  4. GILBERT NEWTON LEWIS* October 25, 1875—March 23, BY JOEL H. HILDEBRAND GILBERT NEWTON LEWIS was born near Boston, Massachusetts, on October 25, 1875. At the age of nine he was taken by his parents to live in Lincoln, Nebraska. Here, for several years, he had little formal schooling, enjoying an advantage which he mentioned

  5. The central character in Patrick Coffey's book Cathedrals of Science is Gilbert Lewis. Indeed, it is a quote from the preface to one of Lewis's books Thermodynamics and the Free Energy of Chemical ...

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  6. lemelson.mit.edu › resources › gilbert-lewisGilbert Lewis | Lemelson

    Learn about Gilbert Lewis, a Harvard-educated scientist who made groundbreaking contributions to chemistry and physics. He invented the Lewis symbols, discovered heavy water, coined the term "photon" and mentored many Nobel laureates.

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  8. Mar 25, 2020 · March 25, 2020. Gilbert N. Lewis in his lab at UC Berkeley, 1937. By Raymond G. Gettell, Joel H. Hildebrand, Wendell M. Latimer, and G. E. Gibson. “ Gilbert Newton Lewis was born near Boston, October 23, 1875. At the age of nine he was taken by his parents to live in Lincoln, Nebraska, where his schooling, though meager, was sufficient to ...

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