Langmuir
Americannoun
noun
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General Electric scientists Vincent Schaefer, Irving Langmuir and Bernard Vonnegut — older brother of the late novelist Kurt Vonnegut — began experimenting with it as early as 1946.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 21, 2025
To understand this variability, researchers reporting in ACS' Langmuir literally watched paint dry.
From Science Daily • Sep. 28, 2023
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 • Apr. 25, 2023
As an example, he pointed to Irving Langmuir, a chemistry Nobel laureate, colleague of Vonnegut’s brother, and the inspiration for the amoral physicist in Cat’s Cradle.
From Science Magazine • Nov. 10, 2022
"My father was the Sire Geoffrey Langmuir of Ascalon," he began.
From The Saracen: The Holy War by Shea, Robert
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