Langmuir

American  

[lang-myoor] / ˈlæŋ myʊər /

noun

1. Irving, 1881–1957, U.S. chemist: Nobel Prize 1932.

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Langmuir British  

/ ˈlæŋmjʊə /

noun

1. Irving. 1881–1957, US chemist. He developed the gas-filled tungsten lamp and the atomic hydrogen welding process: Nobel prize for chemistry 1932

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Example Sentences

During each eclipse, the Langmuir Probe recorded dramatic changes in the data.

From Science Daily

To understand this variability, researchers reporting in ACS' Langmuir literally watched paint dry.

From Science Daily

The devices included high-resolution and microscopic cameras, a thermal imager and a Langmuir probe, which researchers would have used to study how charged particles affect lunar dust.

From Scientific American

In collaboration with the U.S. military, Langmuir attempted to seed hurricanes with silver iodide and dry ice—undeterred by the project’s potential to worsen storms, as it appeared to do in 1947.

From Science Magazine

In the 1940s, a scientist named Irving Langmuir hypothesized that he could weaken a hurricane by flying crystals of dry ice into its eye wall.

From New York Times