길버트 뉴턴 루이스

소개

길버트 뉴턴 루이스(Gilbert Newton Lewis, 1875년 10월 23일 ~ 1946년 3월 23일)는 미국의 물리화학자이다. 루이스에 의해 확립된 전자쌍 이론은 공유 결합의 이해와 산과 염기에 대한 정의의 확장에 큰 영향을 끼쳤다.

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" for the smallest unit of radiant energy.