Langmuir

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike; additional terms may apply for the media files.