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Irving Langmuir
Full Name of the recipient | Irving Langmuir |
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Award | Nobel Prize in Chemistry |
Year of Award | 1932 |
Share in Award | 100.0% |
Award Shared with | |
Motivation for the Award | for his discoveries and investigations in surface chemistry |
Affiliation at the Time of Award | General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY, USA |
Place of Birth | Brooklyn, NY, United States USA |
Date of Birth | 31 January 1881 |
Age at the time of Award | 50 years |
Place of Death | Falmouth, MA, United States USA |
Date of Death | 16 August 1957 |