A man was nominated for the Nobel Prize 35 times, but he never won!

A man was nominated for the Nobel Prize 35 times, but he never won!

The old adage "it was just an honor to be nominated" probably wore out for Gilbert N. Lewis at some point. Lewis was an American physical chemist and was known for his discovery of the covalent bond, the Lewis dot structure, and his concept of electron pairs, among other discoveries.

He attended Harvard University and studied abroad in Germany and the Phillipines. Lewis then went to teach at the University of California, Berkeley and remained there for the rest of his life.

Though he was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 35 times, he never won. In 1946, he was found dead in his Berkeley laboratory. While he had been working with hydrogen cyanide, many believe his death was a suicide.

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