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.

Langmuir & Co. further discovered that the Russians, through sheer volume of effort, already led the world in some fields of study (e.g., geology and soil science).

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 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 ...

Irving Langmuir, J. A. Orange. The Sciences October 25, 1913. ... Scientific American maintains a strict policy of editorial independence in reporting developments in science to our readers.