1875 - 1946
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.G. N. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gilbert N. Lewis has received more than 554,476 page views. His biography is available in 55 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 54 in 2019). Gilbert N. Lewis is the 74th most popular chemist (up from 93rd in 2019), the 579th most popular biography from United States (up from 741st in 2019) and the 10th 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 74 out of 509. Before him are Hans Adolf Krebs, Otto Diels, Theodore William Richards, George de Hevesy, Richard Willstätter, and Frederick Gowland Hopkins. After him are Richard Adolf Zsigmondy, Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner, Martin Heinrich Klaproth, Joseph Proust, Marshall Warren Nirenberg, and Hermann Staudinger.
1900 - 1981
HPI: 65.82
Rank: 68
1876 - 1954
HPI: 65.81
Rank: 69
1868 - 1928
HPI: 65.79
Rank: 70
1885 - 1966
HPI: 65.78
Rank: 71
1872 - 1942
HPI: 65.71
Rank: 72
1861 - 1947
HPI: 65.66
Rank: 73
1875 - 1946
HPI: 65.62
Rank: 74
1865 - 1929
HPI: 65.55
Rank: 75
1780 - 1849
HPI: 65.40
Rank: 76
1743 - 1817
HPI: 65.36
Rank: 77
1754 - 1826
HPI: 65.34
Rank: 78
1927 - 2010
HPI: 65.31
Rank: 79
1881 - 1965
HPI: 65.29
Rank: 80
Among people born in 1875, Gilbert N. Lewis ranks 18. Before him are Aleister Crowley, Albert I of Belgium, Mikhail Kalinin, Marie of Romania, Vallabhbhai Patel, and Edgar Rice Burroughs. After him are Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis, Fritz Kreisler, Henry Hallett Dale, Paul Landowski, Giovanni Gentile, and Antonio Machado. Among people deceased in 1946, Gilbert N. Lewis ranks 30. Before him are Andrey Vlasov, Ferenc Szálasi, Draža Mihailović, Amon Göth, Kurt Daluege, and Karl Hermann Frank. After him are Ananda Mahidol, László Moholy-Nagy, Felix Hoffmann, Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov, Helene Schjerfbeck, and Tomoyuki Yamashita.
1875 - 1947
HPI: 72.16
Rank: 12
1875 - 1934
HPI: 71.49
Rank: 13
1875 - 1946
HPI: 71.22
Rank: 14
1875 - 1938
HPI: 67.19
Rank: 15
1875 - 1950
HPI: 66.81
Rank: 16
1875 - 1950
HPI: 65.89
Rank: 17
1875 - 1946
HPI: 65.62
Rank: 18
1875 - 1911
HPI: 65.23
Rank: 19
1875 - 1962
HPI: 64.59
Rank: 20
1875 - 1968
HPI: 63.84
Rank: 21
1875 - 1961
HPI: 63.80
Rank: 22
1875 - 1944
HPI: 63.43
Rank: 23
1875 - 1939
HPI: 63.41
Rank: 24
1901 - 1946
HPI: 67.49
Rank: 24
1897 - 1946
HPI: 67.01
Rank: 25
1893 - 1946
HPI: 66.66
Rank: 26
1908 - 1946
HPI: 66.45
Rank: 27
1897 - 1946
HPI: 65.91
Rank: 28
1898 - 1946
HPI: 65.79
Rank: 29
1875 - 1946
HPI: 65.62
Rank: 30
1925 - 1946
HPI: 65.47
Rank: 31
1895 - 1946
HPI: 65.41
Rank: 32
1868 - 1946
HPI: 64.64
Rank: 33
1883 - 1946
HPI: 64.18
Rank: 34
1862 - 1946
HPI: 63.67
Rank: 35
1885 - 1946
HPI: 63.53
Rank: 36
Among people born in United States, Gilbert N. Lewis ranks 579 out of 18,182. Before him are D. B. Cooper (1931), Richard Meier (1934), William Holden (1918), Robert Kardashian (1944), Reese Witherspoon (1976), and Mark Zuckerberg (1984). After him are John Deere (1804), Kevin Spacey (1959), John R. Bolton (1948), Mia Farrow (1945), Ed Harris (1950), and Robert Coleman Richardson (1937).
1931 - 1971
HPI: 65.66
Rank: 573
1934 - Present
HPI: 65.65
Rank: 574
1918 - 1981
HPI: 65.64
Rank: 575
1944 - 2003
HPI: 65.64
Rank: 576
1976 - Present
HPI: 65.63
Rank: 577
1984 - Present
HPI: 65.63
Rank: 578
1875 - 1946
HPI: 65.62
Rank: 579
1804 - 1886
HPI: 65.61
Rank: 580
1959 - Present
HPI: 65.59
Rank: 581
1948 - Present
HPI: 65.58
Rank: 582
1945 - Present
HPI: 65.58
Rank: 583
1950 - Present
HPI: 65.55
Rank: 584
1937 - 2013
HPI: 65.54
Rank: 585
Among chemists born in United States, Gilbert N. Lewis ranks 10. Before him are Gertrude B. Elion (1918), Melvin Calvin (1911), Kary Mullis (1944), Irving Langmuir (1881), John Howard Northrop (1891), and Theodore William Richards (1868). After him are Marshall Warren Nirenberg (1927), Edward Adelbert Doisy (1893), Harold Urey (1893), Stanley B. Prusiner (1942), Willard Libby (1908), and James B. Sumner (1887).
1918 - 1999
HPI: 68.13
Rank: 4
1911 - 1997
HPI: 66.42
Rank: 5
1944 - 2019
HPI: 66.32
Rank: 6
1881 - 1957
HPI: 66.22
Rank: 7
1891 - 1987
HPI: 65.98
Rank: 8
1868 - 1928
HPI: 65.79
Rank: 9
1875 - 1946
HPI: 65.62
Rank: 10
1927 - 2010
HPI: 65.31
Rank: 11
1893 - 1986
HPI: 64.32
Rank: 12
1893 - 1981
HPI: 64.32
Rank: 13
1942 - Present
HPI: 64.01
Rank: 14
1908 - 1980
HPI: 63.88
Rank: 15
1887 - 1955
HPI: 63.87
Rank: 16