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Gilbert Lewis

Gilbert Lewis. Personal Life. DOB- October 23 1875 DOD-March 23, 1946 Born in Weymouth, Massachusetts American physical chemist May have committed suicide due to rivalry with another chemist, Irving Langmuir. Awards.

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Gilbert Lewis

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  1. Gilbert Lewis

  2. Personal Life • DOB- October 23 1875 • DOD-March 23, 1946 • Born in Weymouth, Massachusetts • American physical chemist • May have committed suicide due to rivalry with another chemist, Irving Langmuir

  3. Awards • WW1- Appointed Chief of the Defense Division of Chemical Warfare Service. • Received the Distinguished Service Medal (USA) • Cross of the Legion of Honor (France). • Nominated 3 times for a Nobel prize • Fellow of the Royal Society award

  4. Contributions • Discovered the covalent bond • Purification of heavy water • Max Planck proposed that energy behaved as particles, tiny energy packets he called quanta • Albert Einstein wrote a paper using the quantum theory to explain the photoelectric effect • Lewis contributed to Einstein’s theories on the photoelectric effect • Coined the term photon (light particle) • Created Lewis dot diagrams

  5. Academic Life • Entered University of Nebraska at 14 • Attended Harvard university • Earned PhD at 24 • Instructor at Harvard • Superintendent of Weights and Measures in Philippines • Assistant professor at MIT • Chemistry professor at the University of California • 1912- appointed Chairman of Dept. of Chemistry and Dean of the College of Chemistry at Berkeley • Used cubic atom drawings for many of his works • Published over 150 papers

  6. Bibliography • www.wikipedia.com/gilbert_lewis • BC Science chemistry 11 worktext • http://www.woodrow.org/teachers/ci/1992/Lewis.html • http://www.chemistryexplained.com/Kr-Ma/Lewis-Gilbert-N.html

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