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Irving Langmuir

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Noun1.Irving LangmuirIrving Langmuir - United States chemist who studied surface chemistry and developed the gas-filled tungsten lamp and worked on high temperature electrical discharges (1881-1957)


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What's more, two GE scientists were named Nobel Laureates: Irving Langmuir was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1932 for ground-breaking work in chemistry and Ivar Giaever was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1973 for his work in studying superconductivity and opening the path to a whole new class of electronic devices.
 
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