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Gilman Hall was built in 1916-1917 to accommodate an expanded College of Chemistry under the leadership of Gilbert Newton Lewis. This building provided research laboratories and teaching facilities for faculty and students specializing in physical, inorganic, and nuclear chemistry. Work here by C. N. Lewis and K. S. Pitzer helped advance the fields of thermodynamics and molecular structure. Research performed in Gilman Hall has resulted in two Nobel Prizes to William F. Giauque in 1949 for his studies on the behavior of substances at extremely low temperatures, and to Glenn T. Seaborg in 1951 for discoveries in the chemistry of the transuranium elements. Four other individuals who did research here subsequently received Nobel Prizes.
American Chemical Society. November 20, 1997."
