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 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

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

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

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