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