Nathan Lewis (chemist)

Nathan S. Lewis is the George L. Argyros Professor of Chemistry at the California Institute of Technology. He specializes in functionalization of silicon and other semiconductor surfaces, as well as chemical sensing using chemiresistive sensor arrays. He obtained his B.S. and M.S. degrees also at Caltech under Harry B. Gray in 1977 studying the redox reactions of inorganic rhodium complexes. After that, he moved to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for his Ph.D. in 1981 under Mark S. Wrighton studying semiconductor electrochemistry. He then went on to Stanford, first as an assistant professor from 1981 to 1985 and then as a tenured Associate Professor from 1986 to 1988 before relocating to Caltech.

Currently, Lewis is researching solar energy, and in July, 2010 was named as director of a U.S. Department of Energy Energy Innovation Hub, the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis, to develop revolutionary methods to generate fuels directly from sunlight. He has been appointed chair of the Editorial Board for Energy and Environmental Science.

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