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After his stay in Nernst's lab, Lewis returned to Harvard as an instructor for three more years, and in 1904 left to become Superintendent of Weights and Measures for the Bureau of Science of the Philippine Islands in Manila.

The next year he returned to Cambridge, Massachusetts when the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( MIT ) appointed him to a faculty position, in which he had a chance to join a group of outstanding physical chemists under the direction of Arthur Amos Noyes.

He became an assistant professor in 1907, associate professor on 1908, and full professor in 1911.

He left MIT in 1912 to become a professor of physical chemistry and dean of the College of Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley.

Lewis Hall at Berkeley, built in 1948, is named in his honor.