| Authorised form of name | Langmuir; Irving (1881 - 1957) |
| Dates | 1881 - 1957 |
| Nationality | American |
| Place of birth | Brooklyn, New York, USA |
| Date of birth | 31 January 1881 |
| Place of death | Falmouth, Massachusetts, USA |
| Date of death | 16/08/1957 |
| Research field | Chemistry |
| Physics |
| Activity | Medals and prizes:
Nobel Prize (Chemistry) 1932 |
| Membership category | Foreign Member |
| Date of election | 27/06/1935 |
| RSActivity | Medals and prizes:
Hughes Medal 1918
Lectures:
Pilgrim Trust 1938 |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DSB
Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1958 vol 4 pp 167-184, plate, by Hugh Taylor |
| Code | NA644 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| NLB/56/53 | Copy letter from Dr. Arthur Schuster, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Irving Langmuir Esquire, FRS | 7 November 1918 |
| NLB/56/183 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [George Ellery] Hale, FRS | 9 December 1918 |
| NLB/56/469 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Irving Langmuir Esquire; General Electric Company, Schenectady, New York, USA | 17 February 1919 |
| EC/1935/19 | Langmuir, Irving: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| NLB/56/57 | Copy letter from Dr. Arthur Schuster, Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Deputy Master of the [Royal] Mint | 7 November 1918 |
| MC/33/102 | Letter from Irving Langmuir, General Electric Company, Research Laboratory, Schenectady, N.Y., to The Secretaries of the Royal Society, London | 9 December 1918 |
| RR/W/6/118 | Letter from the Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society [John David Griffith Davies] to [Irving] Langmuir, regarding paper 'The analysis of discrete vapour maps' by [Dorothy Maud] Wrinch | 16 February 1939 |