Gilbert N.

Lewis

Born October 28, 1875

Weymouth, Massachusetts

Died March 23, 1946 (aged 70)

Berkeley, California

Nationality American

Fields Physical chemist

Doctoral advisor Theodore William Richards

Doctoral students Michael Kasha

Harold Urey

Glenn T. Seaborg

Joseph Edward Mayer

Known for Covalent bond

Lewis dot structures

Valence bond theory

Electronic theory of acids and bases

Chemical thermodynamics

Heavy water
 Named photon

Explained phosphorescence

Influences Irving Langmuir

Merle Randall

Notable awards Fellow of the Royal Society[1]

Willard Gibbs Award (1924)

Davy Medal (1929)

Sir Joseph John Thomson

OM PRS

Born 18 December 1856

Cheetham Hill, Manchester,England

Died 30 August 1940 (aged 83)

Cambridge, England

Citizenship British
Nationality English

Fields Physics

Institutions Trinity College, Cambridge

Alma mater Owens College

Trinity College, Cambridge

Academic advisors John Strutt (Rayleigh)

Edward John Routh

Notable students Charles Glover Barkla

Charles T. R. Wilson

Ernest Rutherford

Francis William Aston

John Townsend

J. Robert Oppenheimer

Owen Richardson

William Henry Bragg

H. Stanley Allen

John Zeleny

Daniel Frost Comstock

Max Born

T. H. Laby

Paul Langevin

Balthasar van der Pol

Geoffrey Ingram Taylor

Niels Bohr

George Paget Thomson

Known for Plum pudding model

Discovery of electron

Discovery of isotopes

Mass spectrometer invention

First m/e measurement

Proposed first waveguide

 Thomson scattering

Thomson problem

Coining term 'delta ray'

Coining term 'epsilon radiation'

Thomson (unit)

Notable awards Smith's Prize (1880)

Royal Medal (1894)

Hughes Medal (1902)

Nobel Prize in Physics (1906)

Elliott Cresson Medal (1910)

Copley Medal (1914)

Albert Medal (1915)

Franklin Medal (1922)

Faraday Medal (1925)

Signature

Notes

Thomson is the father of Nobel laureateGeorge Paget Thomson.