Irving Langmuir

Irving Langmuir (January 31, 1881 in Brooklyn, New York - August 16, 1957 in Woods Hole, Massachusetts) was an American chemist and physicist. While at G.E., from 1909-1950, Langmuir advanced several basic fields of physics and chemistry, invented the gas filled incandescent lamp, the hydrogen welding technique, and was awarded the 1932 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his work in surface chemistry.

External links and references

• "Langmuir, Irving" Infoplease.com.
• " Irving Langmuir's Ball Lightning Tube". Ball Lightning Page. Science Hobbyist.
• William David Coolidge, Irving Langmuir, Joseph John Thomson (Photo (JPG)) .
• "Irving Langmuir shows Whitney one of his inventions, the Pliotron tube. ca. 1920.". Willis Rodney whitney: the "Father of basic research in industry".
• "Pathological Science" - "famous" lecture of 1953 December 18 at GE Labs