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Irving Langmuir (born January 31, 1881) was an American chemist and physicist. He was born in Brooklyn and later worked in the United States. Langmuir was educated at the University of Göttingen, Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science, and Springside Chestnut Hill Academy. His academic discipline was chemistry.
Langmuir's doctoral advisor was Walther Nernst, and among his doctoral students was Katharine Burr Blodgett. He held occupations as both a chemist and physicist and made significant contributions in his field. Langmuir was awarded the 1932 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and the John J. Carty Award in 1950. In 1989, he was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.
Irving Langmuir passed away on August 16, 1957 in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.
