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Langmuir, Irving (1881–1957)


Irving Langmuir
American physical chemist awarded the 1932 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on thin films on solid and liquid surfaces (particularly oil on water), which gave rise to the new science of surface chemistry.


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