Biography gilbert newton lewis

(b. West Newton, Massachusetts, 25 October 1875; d. Berkeley, California, 23 March 1946),

physical chemistry.

Lewis received his primary education at home from his parents, Frank Wesley Lewis, a lawyer of independent character, and Mary Burr White Lewis.

He read at age three and was intellectually precocious. In 1884 his family moved to Lincoln, Nebraska, and in 1889 he received his first formal education at the university preparatory school.

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In 1893, after two years at the University of Nebraska, Lewis transferred to Harvard, where he obtained his B.S. in 1896. After a year of teaching at Phillips Academy in Andover, Lewis returned to Harvard to study with the physical chemist T.

W. Richards and obtained his Ph.D. in 1899 with a dissertation on electrochemical potentials. After a year of teaching at Harvard, Lewis made the pilgrimage to Germany, the center of physical chemistry, and studied with W. Nernst at Göttingen and with W.

Ostwald at Leipzig.