Ask the Chatbot Games & Quizzes History & Society Science & Tech Biographies Animals & Nature Geography & Travel Arts & Culture ProCon Money Videos

Irving Langmuir: Quick Facts

Written and fact-checked by
The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica

The Information Architects maintain a master list of the topics included in the corpus of  Encyclopædia Britannica, and create and manage the relationships between them.
The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Last updated

Facts

Born January 31, 1881 • New York City • New York
Died August 16, 1957 (aged 76) • Falmouth • Massachusetts
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1932)
Subjects Of Study Langmuir-Child equation • chemical bonding • covalent bond • electrical discharge • electron emission • gas • tungsten

Photos

Langmuir, Irving
See All Images →
default image
Irène Joliot-Curie
French chemist
default image
William Nunn Lipscomb, Jr.
American chemist
default image
Frédéric Joliot-Curie
French chemist and physicist
Linus Pauling
Linus Pauling
American scientist
default image
Paul J. Flory
American chemist
Ahmed Zewail, wearing a suit and purple tie, speaks at a podium against a dark background at the UNESCO and L'Oreal Awards for Women and Science.
Ahmed H. Zewail
American-Egyptian chemist
default image
Walter Kohn
American physicist
default image
John B. Goodenough
American physicist
default image
Peter Agre
American doctor
Mulliken, 1966
Robert Sanderson Mulliken
American chemist and physicist
default image
Peter Debye
American physical chemist
default image
Bruce Merrifield
American biochemist and educator
lithium-ion batteries
M. Stanley Whittingham
British American chemist
default image
Yuan T. Lee
Taiwanese-American chemist
default image
William Francis Giauque
American chemist
Pierre Curie
Pierre Curie
French chemist
default image
Anna Jane Harrison
American chemist and educator
default image
William D. Coolidge
American engineer and chemist
Wilhelm Ostwald.
Wilhelm Ostwald
German chemist
Haber
Fritz Haber
German chemist

Related Quizzes

Michael Faraday (L) English physicist and chemist (electromagnetism) and John Frederic Daniell (R) British chemist and meteorologist who invented the Daniell cell.
Faces of Science