Irving Langmuir
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Irving Langmuir was an American chemist, physicist, and metallurgical engineer. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1932 for his work in surface chemistry.
Langmuir, likely circa 1910
Langmuir c. 1900
Langmuir (center) in 1922 in his lab at GE, showing radio pioneer Guglielmo Marconi (right) a new 20 kW triode tube
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General Electric
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General Electric Company was an American multinational conglomerate. It played a role in the development of electric power, electric light, home appliances, aviation, and medical imaging. GE was estab
Irving Langmuir
…skills were largely responsible for the popularization of the theory, although the credit for the theory itself belongs mostly to Lewis. While at General Electric from 1909 to 1950, Langmuir advanced several fields of physics and chemistry, inventing the gas-filled incandescent lamp and the hydrogen welding…
One Financial Center, the final headquarters of General Electric in Boston, Massachusetts
General Electric in Schenectady, New York, aerial view, 1896
General Electric Building at 570 Lexington Avenue, New York
Carmen Miranda in a 1945 advertisement for a General Electric FM radio in The Saturday Evening Post