Irving Langmuir - Nobel Prize in Chemistry — 1932
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Irving Langmuir

Prize
Nobel Prize in Chemistry — 1932
for his discoveries and investigations in surface chemistry
Citizenship
United States United States
Languages
English
date of birth
1/31/1881
place of birth
Brooklyn
date of death
8/16/1957
place of death
Woods Hole
Lived
76 years

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member of
  • Royal Society of London
    • start time: 6/27/1935
  • German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
    • start time: 1932
  • National Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 1918
  • American Philosophical Society
    • start time: 1922
  • American Association for the Advancement of Science
  • Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • American Physical Society
notable work
  • Langmuir probe
educated at
  • University of Göttingen
  • Chestnut Hill Academy
  • Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
employer
  • General Electric
field of work
  • chemistry
doctoral student
  • Katharine Burr Blodgett
occupation
  • physicist
  • chemist
  • meteorologist
  • academic
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