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Irving Langmuir
Irving Langmuir was an American chemist, physicist, and metallurgical engineer. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1932 for his work in surface chemistry.
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science · American chemist and physicist (1881–1957) · physicist · chemist · academic · meteorologist · also Irving Langmuir, Langmuir
Born 31 January 1881 · Died 16 August 1957 · Q184286
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2023· 1 entry
2021· 1 entry
C&EN: Irving Langmuir Award in Chemical Physics Recipients
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1999· 1 entry
Called Langmuir's World [6]
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1989· 1 entry
Awarded National Inventors Hall of Fame (1989).
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1957· 1 entry
Died 1957-08-16.
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1953· 1 entry
Langmuir coined the term "pathological science", describing research conducted with accordance to the scientific method, but tainted by unconscious bias or subjective effects
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1950· 1 entry
Awarded John J. Carty Award for the Advancement of Science (1950).
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1944· 1 entry
Won Faraday Medal (1944).
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1939· 1 entry
Awarded Faraday Lectureship Prize (1939).
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1938· 1 entry
Langmuir's scientific interests began to turn to atmospheric science and meteorology
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1937· 1 entry
Awarded John Scott Award (1937).
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1935· 1 entry
Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1935).
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1934· 2 entries
Won Holley Medal (1934).
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Won Franklin Medal (1934).
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1932· 3 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry — for his discoveries and investigations in surface chemistry.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1932).
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Received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his discoveries and investigations in surface chemistry
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1930· 1 entry
Awarded Willard Gibbs Award (1930).
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1928· 1 entry
Won Perkin Medal (1928).
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1927· 1 entry
Was one of the participants of the fifth Solvay Conference on Physics that took place at the International Solvay Institute for Physics in Belgium
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1924· 1 entry
Invented the diagnostic method for measuring both temperature and density with an electrostatic probe, now called a Langmuir probe and commonly used in plasma physics
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1920· 2 entries
Awarded Rumford Prize (1920).
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Won William H. Nichols Medal (1920).
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1918· 2 entries
Won Hughes Medal (1918).
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Published “THE ADSORPTION OF GASES ON PLANE SURFACES OF GLASS, MICA AND PLATINUM.” in Journal of the American Chemical Society — cited 20,646 times.
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1917· 1 entry
Published a paper on the chemistry of oil films that later became the basis for the award of the 1932 Nobel Prize in chemistry
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1916· 1 entry
Published “THE CONSTITUTION AND FUNDAMENTAL PROPERTIES OF SOLIDS AND LIQUIDS. PART I. SOLIDS.” in Journal of the American Chemical Society — cited 8,970 times.
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1915· 1 entry
Won William H. Nichols Medal (1915).
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1912· 1 entry
With whom he adopted two children: Kenneth and Barbara
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1906· 1 entry
Under Friedrich Dolezalek in Göttingen, for research done using the "Nernst glower", an electric lamp invented by Nernst
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1881· 1 entry
Born 1881-01-31.
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