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Gilbert N. Lewis
Gilbert Newton Lewis 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 thermodyn…
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science · American physical chemist (1875–1946) · chemist · physicist · university teacher · non-fiction writer · also Gilbert N. Lewis, Gilbert Lewis, Gilbert Newton Lewis, Lewis
Born 23 October 1875 · Died 23 March 1946 · Q208858
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Published “2021 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure” in European Heart Journal — cited 12,211 times.
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2020· 2 entries
Published “SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python” in Nature Methods — cited 36,806 times.
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Published “<i>Planck</i> 2018 results” in Astronomy & Astrophysics — cited 13,431 times.
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2016· 1 entry
Published “The Whale Optimization Algorithm” in Advances in Engineering Software — cited 13,621 times.
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2014· 1 entry
Published “Grey Wolf Optimizer” in Advances in Engineering Software — cited 18,467 times.
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2000· 1 entry
Published “Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology” in Nature Genetics — cited 36,995 times.
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1999· 1 entry
Published “A More Accurate Method To Estimate Glomerular Filtration Rate from Serum Creatinine: A New Prediction Equation” in Annals of Internal Medicine — cited 12,277 times.
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1991· 1 entry
Published “Methods for Dietary Fiber, Neutral Detergent Fiber, and Nonstarch Polysaccharides in Relation to Animal Nutrition” in Journal of Dairy Science — cited 22,209 times.
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1946· 3 entries
Lewis was found dead in his Berkeley laboratory where he had been working with hydrogen cyanide; many postulated that the cause of his death was suicide
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Died 1946-03-23.
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“There is always the danger in scientific work that some word or phrase will be used by different authors to express so many ideas and surmises that, unless redefined, it loses all real significance.”
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1940· 1 entry
Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1940).
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1934· 2 entries
Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Madrid Complutense (1934).
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Refusing to state the cause for his resignation; it has been speculated that it was due to a dispute over the internal politics of that institution or to the failure of those he had nominated to be elected
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1933· 2 entries
And the first to study survival and growth of life forms in heavy water
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Started his research on isotope separation
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1929· 1 entry
Won Davy Medal (1929).
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1926· 2 entries
Coined the term "photon" for the smallest unit of radiant energy
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Coined the term "photon" for the smallest unit of radiant energy (light)
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1925· 1 entry
Awarded Silliman Memorial Lectures (1925).
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1924· 2 entries
Awarded Willard Gibbs Award (1924).
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By studying the magnetic properties of solutions of oxygen in liquid nitrogen, Lewis found that O4 molecules were formed
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1923· 2 entries
And Merle Randall published the results of this study, which helped formalize modern chemical thermodynamics
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Formulated the electron-pair theory of acid–base reactions
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1921· 2 entries
Won William H. Nichols Medal (1921).
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Lewis was the first to propose an empirical equation describing the failure of strong electrolytes to obey the law of mass action, a problem that had perplexed physical chemists for twenty years
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1916· 3 entries
It became an important part of his theory of the shared electron pair bond
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Also proposed his theory of bonding and added information about electrons in the periodic table of the chemical elements
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Published his classic paper on chemical bonding "The Atom and the Molecule" in which he formulated the idea of what would become known as the covalent bond, consisting of a shared pair of electrons, and he defined the
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1913· 2 entries
Joined the Alpha Chi Sigma at Berkeley, the professional chemistry fraternity
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Was elected to the National Academy of Sciences
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1912· 4 entries
Married Mary Hinckley Sheldon, daughter of a Harvard professor of Romance languages
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To teach chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, where he became the dean of the college of chemistry and spent the rest of his life
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Lewis and Edwin Bidwell Wilson presented a major work in mathematical physics that not only applied synthetic geometry to the study of spacetime, but also noted the identity of a spacetime squeeze mapping and a Lorentz t
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To become a professor of physical chemistry and dean of the College of Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley
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1908· 1 entry
Published the first of several papers on relativity, in which he derived the mass-energy relationship in a different way from Albert Einstein's derivation
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1907· 2 entries
Was it possible to calculate entropies unambiguously
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Associate professor in 1908, and full professor in 1911
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1905· 1 entry
His name was adopted for what Einstein had called a light quantum (Lichtquant in German)
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1904· 2 entries
But Lewis’ version of this theory was the only one to be embodied in a concrete atomic model
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Lewis was granted a leave of absence and became Superintendent of Weights and Measures for the Bureau of Science in Manila, Philippines
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1902· 1 entry
While trying to explain the laws of valence to his students, Lewis conceived the idea that atoms were built up of a concentric series of cubes with electrons at each corner
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1901· 1 entry
Had not been defined at low temperatures
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1900· 1 entry
And 1901, Lewis tried to provide a solution
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1899· 1 entry
With a dissertation on electrochemical potentials
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1893· 1 entry
After two years at the University of Nebraska, Lewis transferred to Harvard University, where he obtained his B
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1884· 1 entry
His family moved to Lincoln, Nebraska, and in 1889 he received his first formal education at the university preparatory school
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1875· 2 entries
Born 1875-10-23.
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And raised in Weymouth, Massachusetts, where there exists a street named for him, G
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