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2 unusual facts about Irving Langmuir


Alexander Gurwitsch

The "mitogenetic ray" was one of the scientific topics qualified by Irving Langmuir as pathological science.

Project Stormfury

The public blamed the seeding, and Irving Langmuir claimed that the reversal had been caused by human intervention.


Irving Langmuir House

The Irving Langmuir House was the home of physicist-chemist Irving Langmuir, winner of the 1932 Nobel Prize during his research career with General Electric.

Langmuir probe

A Langmuir probe is a device named after Nobel Prize winning physicist Irving Langmuir, used to determine the electron temperature, electron density, and electric potential of a plasma.

Plasma diagnostics

The method was developed by Irving Langmuir and his co-workers in the 1920s, and has since been further developed in order to extend its applicability to more general conditions than those presumed by Langmuir.

Vlasov equation

# Theory of pair collisions disagrees with the discovery by Rayleigh, Irving Langmuir and Lewi Tonks of natural vibrations in electron plasma.


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