Background
Langmuir, Irving was born on January 31, 1881 in Brooklyn, New York, United States. Son of Charles and Sadie (Comings) Langmuir.
Langmuir, Irving was born on January 31, 1881 in Brooklyn, New York, United States. Son of Charles and Sadie (Comings) Langmuir.
Metropolitan E., Columbia School of Mines, 1903. Doctor of Philisophy, University of Göttingen, 1906. Doctor of Science, Northwestern, 1921, Union U., 1923, Columbia, 1925, Kenyon College, 1927, Princeton, 1929, Lehigh University, 1934, Harvard, 1938, Oxford, 1938, Rutgers, 1941, Queen’s College (Canada), 1941.
D.Ing., Technology Hochschule, Berlin, 1929. Doctor of Laws, Edinburgh, 1921, Johns Hopkins, 1936, University of California, 1946.
Instructor chemistry, Stevens Institute, Hoboken, New Jersey, 1906-1909. Physical chemical research, Research Laboratory of General Electric Company, Schenectady, New York, since 1909, now consultant of Research Laboratory. Engaged in development of gas filled tungsten lamps, electron discharge apparatus, condensation high vacuum pump, atomic hydrogen welding, work on monomolecular films and surface chemistry, cloud physics, including weather modification, etc.
Also in 1917-1918, on devices for submarine detection at Naval Experimental Station, Nahant, Massachusetts Lecturer, London, 1938, Hitchcock Foundation lecturer, University of California, 1946. Member board of trustees, State University of New York, September 1948-1950.
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (president 1941), American Physical Society, Indian Academy Science (honorary). Member American Philosophical Society, American Chemists Society (president 1929), National Academy Sciences, American Academy Arts and Sciences, Royal Society Upsala, corresponding. Member Royal Institution, Chemical Society of London, Royal Society (London), Royal Physiog.
Society (Lund), Academia Brasileria de Sciencias (Brazil), Societe de Chimie Industrielle. Was awarded Nichols medal by New York section of American Chemical Society for researches on chemical reactions at low pressures, 1915. Clubs: Chemists (New York).
Married Marion Mersereau, April. Children: Kenneth, Barbara.