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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". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Irving Langmuir has received more than 596,981 page views. His biography is available in 68 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 65 in 2019). Irving Langmuir is the 72nd most popular chemist (down from 62nd in 2019), the 517th most popular biography from United States (up from 521st in 2019) and the 7th 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

Among chemists, Irving Langmuir ranks 72 out of 602. Before him are Tadeusz Reichstein, Jan Baptist van Helmont, Paul J. Crutzen, Joseph Proust, Julius Lothar Meyer, and Francis William Aston. After him are Hermann Staudinger, Heinrich Otto Wieland, Richard Adolf Zsigmondy, Dorothy Hodgkin, George de Hevesy, and Gilbert N. Lewis.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1881, Irving Langmuir ranks 29. Before him are Alcide De Gasperi, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Ettore Bugatti, Hans Fischer, Georg von Küchler, and Juan Ramón Jiménez. After him are Hermann Staudinger, Maximilian von Weichs, George Enescu, Władysław Sikorski, François Darlan, and Walter Rudolf Hess. Among people deceased in 1957, Irving Langmuir ranks 21. Before him are Constantin Brâncuși, Gichin Funakoshi, Gerty Cori, Gabriela Mistral, Walther Bothe, and Richard E. Byrd. After him are Heinrich Otto Wieland, Joseph McCarthy, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, Alfred Döblin, Curzio Malaparte, and Jože Plečnik.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Irving Langmuir ranks 517 out of 20,380. Before him are Demi Moore (1962), Liza Minnelli (1946), Katherine Johnson (1918), William P. Murphy (1892), Kurt Russell (1951), and Robert A. Heinlein (1907). After him are William Holden (1918), Paul Simon (1941), Christopher Reeve (1952), Carroll Shelby (1923), Sydney Pollack (1934), and Charlie Parker (1920).

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Among CHEMISTS In United States

Among chemists born in United States, Irving Langmuir ranks 7. Before him are Linus Pauling (1901), Edwin McMillan (1907), John Howard Northrop (1891), John Stith Pemberton (1831), Gertrude B. Elion (1918), and Melvin Calvin (1911). After him are Gilbert N. Lewis (1875), Theodore William Richards (1868), James B. Sumner (1887), Edward Adelbert Doisy (1893), Marshall Warren Nirenberg (1927), and Stanford Moore (1913).

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