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Lewis structure
A Lewis structure, also called an electron dot structure, is a diagram showing a molecule's valence electrons as dots, with shared pairs drawn as covalent bonds.
Lewis T. Babcock
Lewis T. Babcock, also known as Lewis Thornton Babcock, is a senior United States district judge for the District of Colorado, appointed by President Ronald Reagan in 1988.
Lewis T. Williams
Lewis T. ("Rusty") Williams is an American physician-scientist, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator from 1983 to 1993, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
Lewis Tan
Lewis Singwah Tan, British actor and martial artist born 1987 in Manchester, son of stunt coordinator Philip Tan; known for Cole Young in Mortal Kombat (2021, 2026), Shatterstar in Deadpool 2, Wu Assassins, Into the Badlands, Shadow and Bone, Cobra Kai.
Lewis Terman
Lewis Terman (1877–1956) was an American psychologist at Stanford University who revised the Binet intelligence test into the Stanford–Binet and led the Genetic Studies of Genius, a longitudinal study of 1,528 gifted children begun in 1921.
Lewis Thomas
Lewis Thomas (1913–1993) was an American physician, immunologist, and essayist who led the NYU and Yale medical schools and wrote The Lives of a Cell.
Lewis Tilney
Lewis Tilney is an American cell biologist at the University of Pennsylvania known for his studies of the cytoskeleton, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1998.
Lewis University
Lewis University is a private Catholic, Lasallian university in Romeoville, Illinois, founded in 1932 as an aviation school. Known for its FAA-approved aviation programs, NCAA Division II Flyers, and 2023-2025 merger with St. Augustine College.
Lewis Vaughan Jones
Lewis Vaughan Jones, Welsh BBC News presenter (born 1981, Penarth) of Breakfast, News at One and the News Channel; former ITV/ITN political correspondent; lost left-ear hearing suddenly in 2018 and anchors with a visible hearing implant; married to CNN anchor Hannah Vaughan Jones.
Lewis W. Wannamaker
Lewis W. Wannamaker (1923–1983) was an American physician-scientist who showed that prompt penicillin treatment of streptococcal infections prevents rheumatic fever, work honored with the 1954 Lasker Award.
Lewis Wolpert
Lewis Wolpert (1929–2021) was a South African-born British developmental biologist who formulated positional information, a model for how embryonic cells learn their location and build the body plan.
Lewis's trilemma
Lewis's trilemma, also known as Liar, lunatic, or Lord, is a Christian apologetic argument stated by C. S. Lewis in 1942 and in Mere Christianity (1952).
Lewisham
Lewisham is a major town centre in the London Borough of Lewisham, south-east London, between Ladywell and Blackheath. Known for its historic High Street market, Clock Tower (1900), rail and DLR interchange, and planned shopping centre regeneration from 2027.
Lewisite
Lewisite is an organic arsenical vesicant chemical warfare agent developed in the United States late in World War I but never used in warfare, causing severe blistering.
Lewiston–Queenston Bridge
The Lewiston–Queenston Bridge is a steel deck-arch road bridge over the Niagara River between Lewiston, New York and Queenston, Ontario, opened in 1962 as the northernmost crossing.
Lewiston, Idaho
Lewiston, Idaho: city at the Snake-Clearwater confluence (Tsceminicum), founded May 13, 1861 during the gold rush, first incorporated Idaho city, original territorial capital, and Idaho's only seaport.
Lewiston, Maine
Lewiston, Maine: second-largest city in Maine, on the Androscoggin River opposite Auburn. Textile mill city built on French Canadian immigration, later Somali refugee resettlement; site of the October 25, 2023 mass shooting that killed 18.
Lewisville, Texas
Lewisville, Texas: a Denton County city about 23 miles north of Dallas, incorporated 1925, population about 139,000-140,880 after the 2021 Castle Hills annexation, on Lewisville Lake along I-35E.
Léwoz
Léwoz (also written Léwòz) is a fast, confrontational rhythm of gwoka, the drum music of Guadeloupe, and the traditional nighttime gathering where drummers, singers, and dancers perform it in a circle.
Lewy body
Lewy body: intraneuronal aggregate of misfolded alpha-synuclein protein, discovered by Friedrich Lewy in 1912. Defines Parkinson's disease, dementia with Lewy bodies, and Parkinson disease dementia; definitive diagnosis requires autopsy.
Lewy body dementias
Lewy body dementias: dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) and Parkinson disease dementia (PDD), alpha-synuclein deposit disorders causing hallucinations, parkinsonism, and fluctuating cognition; about 20% of dementias, no cure.
Lex (software)
Lex is a lexical analyzer generator written by M. E. Lesk and E. Schmidt at Bell Laboratories in 1975 for UNIX, paired with the yacc parser generator.
Lex Apponyi
Lex Apponyi is the name for Hungarian school laws of 1907 and 1908 under Count Albert Apponyi, tying state aid to church schools to Hungarian-language teaching.
Lex Barker
Lex Barker (Alexander Crichlow Barker Jr., 1919–1973), American actor, tenth screen Tarzan in five RKO films 1949–1953, later Old Shatterhand in the German Karl May westerns, married to Lana Turner and Arlene Dahl.
Lex Delles
Lex Delles, born 1984 in Mondorf-les-Bains, is a Luxembourgish Democratic Party politician serving as Minister of the Economy, SME, Energy and Tourism since 2023, after serving as mayor of Mondorf-les-Bains.
Lex Fridman
Lex Fridman, also known as Alexei "Lex" Fridman, is a Russian-American artificial-intelligence researcher at MIT who studies human-AI interaction in driving and hosts the Lex Fridman Podcast, launched in 2018.
Lex Legion
Lex Legion is a Swedish heavy metal supergroup formed in 2026, reuniting four-fifths of King Diamond's late 1980s lineup (Mikkey Dee, Andy LaRocque, Pete Blakk, Hal Patino) with Pagan's Mind singer Nils K. Rue; their self-titled debut album arrived on MNRK Heavy in June 2026.
Lex loci contractus
Lex loci contractus is a choice-of-law rule under which a contract's validity and obligations are decided by the law of the place where it was formed.
Lex Luger
Lex Luger, ring name of Lawrence Pfohl, is an American retired professional wrestler known for NWA, WCW, and WWF runs, inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2025.
Lex Luthor
Lex Luthor, DC Comics supervillain created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, first appeared in Action Comics #23 (1940) as Superman's bald, genius archenemy; reinvented as a corporate tycoon in 1986 and portrayed by Hackman, Eisenberg, and Hoult on screen.