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Gilbert N. Lewis

1875 - 1946

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Gilbert Newton Lewis (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. 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 of chemical bonding. Lewis successfully contributed to chemical thermodynamics, photochemistry, and isotope separation, and is also known for his concept of acids and bases. Lewis also researched on relativity and quantum physics, and in 1926 he coined the term "photon" for the smallest unit of radiant energy. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Gilbert N. Lewis is the 116th most popular chemist (down from 78th in 2019), the 600th most popular biography from United States (down from 537th in 2019) and the 22nd most popular American Chemist.

Gilbert N. Lewis is most famous for his work on the electron-pair theory of chemical bonding.

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Among chemists, Gilbert N. Lewis ranks 116 out of 602. Before him are Jacques Monod, Irving Langmuir, Manfred Eigen, Melvin Calvin, Avram Hershko, and Claude Louis Berthollet. After him are Michael Levitt, Lars Onsager, Carl Ferdinand Cori, Edward W. Morley, William Crookes, and George Porter.

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Among people born in 1875, Gilbert N. Lewis ranks 21. Before him are Marie of Romania, Albert I of Belgium, Mikhail Kalinin, Henry Hallett Dale, Jim Corbett, and Vesto Slipher. After him are John Buchan, Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Thomas Burke, Fritz Kreisler, and Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis. Among people deceased in 1946, Gilbert N. Lewis ranks 27. Before him are Fritz Sauckel, Gertrude Stein, Karl Haushofer, Draža Mihailović, Ferenc Szálasi, and Paul Langevin. After him are James Jeans, Ananda Mahidol, Karl Hermann Frank, Andrey Vlasov, Kurt Daluege, and László Moholy-Nagy.

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Among people born in United States, Gilbert N. Lewis ranks 600 out of 20,380. Before him are Hugh Hefner (1926), Christopher Reeve (1952), Michelle Pfeiffer (1958), Asaph Hall (1829), Ed Harris (1950), and The Notorious B.I.G. (1972). After him are Jack Ruby (1911), Robert Mitchum (1917), George Clooney (1961), Michael Keaton (1951), Lewis H. Morgan (1818), and George E. Smith (1930).

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Among CHEMISTS In United States

Among chemists born in United States, Gilbert N. Lewis ranks 22. Before him are Theodore William Richards (1868), William Howard Stein (1911), Stanford Moore (1913), Vincent du Vigneaud (1901), Irving Langmuir (1881), and Melvin Calvin (1911). After him are Edward W. Morley (1838), William Lipscomb (1919), Paul Berg (1926), Christian B. Anfinsen (1916), William E. Moerner (1953), and Harold Urey (1893).

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