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Irving Langmuir (Chemistry)
Birthday: 1881, Brooklyn, New York City, USA
Irving Langmuir obtained his doctorate from the University of
Gottingen and spent most of his career working for General Electric Company in
Schnectady. He was awarded the 1932 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on
surface chemistry - the properties of liquid surfaces. Langmuir worked during WW
II on the production of smokescreens and he later applied this knowledge to the
use of solid carbon dioxide and silver iodide in cloud seeding. (See also
November 13)
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