Langmuir

Langmuir may refer to:

• Langmuir (crater), an impact crater on the Moon's far side
• Langmuir (journal), an academic journal on colloids, surfaces and interfaces, published by the American Chemical Society
• Langmuir (unit), a unit of exposure of an adsorbate/gas to a substrate used in surface science to study adsorption
• Langmuir Cove, a cove in the north end of Arrowsmith Peninsula, Graham Land, Antarctica

People:

• Alexander Langmuir (1910–1993), an American epidemiologist
• Charles Langmuir, a geologist and nephew of Irving Langmuir
• Gavin I. Langmuir (1924–2005), a Canadian veteran of World War II, an historian of anti-Semitism and a medievalist at Stanford University
• Irving Langmuir (1881–1957), an American Nobel Prize-winning chemist and physicist known for:
  • Irving Langmuir House
  • Langmuir circulation, a wind-driven ocean circulation
  • Langmuir equation, an equation that relates the coverage or adsorption of molecules on a solid surface to gas pressure or concentration of a medium above the solid surface at a fixed temperature
  • Langmuir probe
  • Langmuir wave, a rapid oscillation of the electron density in conducting media such as plasmas or metals

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