Gilbert N. Lewis
American physical chemist
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Updated 2026-05-29
Shaped modern chemistry through the covalent bond and electron pair concept—those Lewis dot structures you drew in school. Also coined "photon" and redefined acids and bases.
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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 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" fo…
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