Editing Gilbert N. Lewis (section)

===University of California, Berkeley===
G. N. Lewis left MIT in 1912 to become a professor of physical chemistry and dean of the [[Berkeley College of Chemistry|College of Chemistry]] at the [[University of California, Berkeley]].<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/education/whatischemistry/landmarks/gilman.html|title=Gilman Hall University of California, Berkeley - National Historic Chemical Landmark|website=American Chemical Society|language=en|access-date=2019-03-09}}</ref> On June 21, 1912, he married Mary Hinckley Sheldon, daughter of a Harvard professor of [[Romance languages]]. They had two sons, both of whom became chemistry professors, and a daughter. In 1913, he joined the [[Alpha Chi Sigma]] at Berkeley, the professional chemistry fraternity.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://axs.berkeley.edu/about.html|title=About - Alpha Chi Sigma {{!}} Sigma Chapter|website=axs.berkeley.edu|access-date=2019-03-09|archive-date=July 29, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210729031036/https://axs.berkeley.edu/about.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Lewis' graduate advisees at Berkeley went on to be exceptionally successful with the [[Nobel Committee]]. 14 [[Nobel Prize|Nobel prizes]] were eventually awarded to the men he took as students.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Physics |first=American Institute of |date=2021-09-24 |title=Willard Libby - Session I |url=https://www.aip.org/history-programs/niels-bohr-library/oral-histories/4743-1 |access-date=2023-08-17 |website=www.aip.org |language=en}}</ref> The best-known of these include [[Harold Urey]] (1934 Nobel Prize), [[William F. Giauque]] (1949 Nobel Prize), [[Glenn T. Seaborg]] (1951 Nobel Prize), [[Willard Libby]] (1960 Nobel Prize), [[Melvin Calvin]] (1961 Nobel Prize).<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":6">{{Cite web|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/1949/giauque/lecture/|title=The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1949|website=NobelPrize.org|language=en-US|access-date=2019-03-09}}</ref><ref name=":7">{{Cite web|url=https://www.mediatheque.lindau-nobel.org/research-profile/laureate-libby|title=Research Profile - Willard Frank Libby|website=Lindau Nobel Mediatheque|language=en|access-date=2019-03-09}}</ref> Due to his efforts, the college of chemistry at Berkeley became one of the top chemistry centers in the world.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":8">{{Cite web|url=https://lemelson.mit.edu/resources/gilbert-newton-lewis|title=Gilbert Newton Lewis {{!}} Lemelson-MIT Program|website=lemelson.mit.edu|access-date=2019-03-09|archive-date=2020-04-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200411010110/https://lemelson.mit.edu/resources/gilbert-newton-lewis|url-status=dead}}</ref>

While at Berkeley he also refused entry to women, including preventing [[Margaret Melhase]] from conducting graduate studies.<ref name="SFGATE">{{cite web |last1=Davidson |first1=Keay |title=Margaret Fuchs -- worked on secret atomic bomb project |url=https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Margaret-Fuchs-worked-on-secret-atomic-bomb-2489618.php |website=SFGATE |date=8 September 2006 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20210513204640/https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Margaret-Fuchs-worked-on-secret-atomic-bomb-2489618.php |archive-date=2021-05-13}}</ref><ref name="PattonArticle">{{Cite journal|last=Patton|first=Dennis D.|date=1999-04-01|title=History Corner: How Cesium-137 Was Discovered by an Undergraduate Student|url=https://jnm.snmjournals.org/content/40/4/18N|journal=Journal of Nuclear Medicine|volume=40|issue=4|pages=18N–31N|issn=0161-5505|pmid=10210206}}</ref> Melhase had previously co-discovered [[Cesium-137]] with Seaborg as an undergraduate. In 1913, he was elected to the [[United States National Academy of Sciences|National Academy of Sciences]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Gilbert N. Lewis |url=https://www.nasonline.org/member-directory/deceased-members/20000757.html |access-date=2023-10-03 |website=www.nasonline.org}}</ref> He was elected to the [[American Philosophical Society]] in 1918.<ref>{{Cite web |title=APS Member History |url=https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=Gilbert+N.+Lewis&title=&subject=&subdiv=&mem=&year=&year-max=&dead=&keyword=&smode=advanced |access-date=2023-10-03 |website=search.amphilsoc.org}}</ref> He resigned in 1934, refusing to state the cause for his resignation; it has been speculated that it was due to a dispute over the internal politics of that institution or to the failure of those he had nominated to be elected. His decision to resign may also have been sparked by his resentment over the award of the 1934 Nobel Prize for chemistry to his student, [[Harold Urey]], for his 1931 isolation of [[deuterium]] and the confirmation of its [[Spectral line|spectrum]]. This was a prize Lewis almost certainly felt he should have shared for his efforts to purify and characterize [[heavy water]].<ref>Coffey (2008): 221-22.</ref>