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The chemist Irving Langmuir had already won a Nobel Prize, but he’d never screamed in delight during an experiment before. It was November 13, 1946. He was standing in a control tower at the ...
Still, Irving Langmuir would be crushed to see the lowly state of weather modification today. However sophisticated it has grown since 1946, meteorology remains a passive, not active, science.
The scientist is also based on one particular person. While working in a chemistry lab, Vonnegut came into contact with Doctor Irving Langmuir.
That older brother is now Dr. Arthur Comings Langmuir, shellac & glycerine expert, donor of the $1,000 Langmuir prize for precocity in chemistry. Dr. Irving Langmuir at 51 remains inquisitive.
Irving Langmuir’s father was a business man, self-made in the sense that he hired out as a clerk at the age of fourteen and by the time he was thirty-five had accumulated a comfortable fortune.
In 1918, the American chemist Irving Langmuir published a paper examining the behavior of gas molecules sticking to a solid surface. Guided by the results of careful experiments, as well as his ...
Pure science gave way to practical technology when one of Dr. Langmuir’s coworkers, Dr. Katharine Burr Blodgett, found that a layer of transparent liquid soap, with a thickness of one-quarter ...
In the 1950s, some U.S. scientists warned that, ... The December 11, 1950, Charleston Daily Mail (of Charleston, West Virginia) ran a short article quoting Dr. Irving Langmuir, ...
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