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Irving Langmuir

1881 - 1957

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Irving Langmuir (; January 31, 1881 – August 16, 1957) was an American chemist, physicist, and metallurgical engineer. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1932 for his work in surface chemistry. Langmuir's most famous publication is the 1919 article "The Arrangement of Electrons in Atoms and Molecules" in which, building on Gilbert N. Lewis's cubical atom theory and Walther Kossel's chemical bonding theory, he outlined his "concentric theory of atomic structure". Langmuir became embroiled in a priority dispute with Lewis over this work; Langmuir's presentation skills were largely responsible for the popularization of the theory, although the credit for the theory itself belongs mostly to Lewis. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Irving Langmuir is the 111th most popular chemist (down from 72nd in 2019), the 576th most popular biography from United States (down from 517th in 2019) and the 20th most popular American Chemist.

Irving Langmuir is most famous for his work in the field of surface chemistry. He is credited with the discovery of the Langmuir monolayer and the Langmuir adsorption isotherm.

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Among chemists, Irving Langmuir ranks 111 out of 602. Before him are Paul J. Crutzen, Artturi Ilmari Virtanen, Paul Hermann Müller, Odd Hassel, Yves Chauvin, and Jacques Monod. After him are Manfred Eigen, Melvin Calvin, Avram Hershko, Claude Louis Berthollet, Gilbert N. Lewis, and Michael Levitt.

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Among people born in 1881, Irving Langmuir ranks 29. Before him are Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist, Fernand Léger, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Alexei Rykov, Erwin von Witzleben, and Asta Nielsen. After him are Alcide De Gasperi, Ettore Bugatti, L. E. J. Brouwer, Walter Rudolf Hess, Georg von Küchler, and Juan Ramón Jiménez. Among people deceased in 1957, Irving Langmuir ranks 22. Before him are Wilhelm Reich, Gichin Funakoshi, Oliver Hardy, Heinrich Otto Wieland, Henry van de Velde, and Gabriela Mistral. After him are Alfred Döblin, Heinrich Hoffmann, José Leandro Andrade, Curzio Malaparte, Jože Plečnik, and Richard E. Byrd.

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Among people born in United States, Irving Langmuir ranks 576 out of 20,380. Before him are Lauren Bacall (1924), Rock Hudson (1925), Charles Cooley (1864), Jon Brower Minnoch (1941), Prince (1958), and Paul Alexander (1946). After him are Dusty Rhodes (1945), Viggo Mortensen (1958), Brian De Palma (1940), Thomas P. Stafford (1930), Charlie Parker (1920), and John Wayne Gacy (1942).

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Among chemists born in United States, Irving Langmuir ranks 20. Before him are Thomas Midgley Jr. (1889), Edward Adelbert Doisy (1893), Theodore William Richards (1868), William Howard Stein (1911), Stanford Moore (1913), and Vincent du Vigneaud (1901). After him are Melvin Calvin (1911), Gilbert N. Lewis (1875), Edward W. Morley (1838), William Lipscomb (1919), Paul Berg (1926), and Christian B. Anfinsen (1916).

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