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Langmuir (crater) Langmuir is an impact crater on the Moon's Far side (Moon), far side. It is located in a region to the southwest of the Mare Orientale impact basin. Langmuir is bracketed between two larger craters, with Chebyshev (crater), Chebyshev to the west- ...

, an impact crater on the Moon's far side * ''Langmuir'' (journal), an academic journal on colloids, surfaces and interfaces, published by the American Chemical Society * Langmuir (unit), a unit of exposure of an adsorbate/gas to a substrate used in surface science to study adsorption * Langmuir Cove, a cove in the north end of Arrowsmith Peninsula, Graham Land, Antarctica * Langmuir monolayer, a one-molecule thick layer of an insoluble organic material spread onto an aqueous subphase in a Langmuir-Blodgett trough

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* Alexander Langmuir (1910–1993), American epidemiologist * Gavin I. Langmuir (1924–2005), Canadian veteran of World War II, historian of anti-Semitism and medievalist at Stanford University *

Irving Langmuir Irving Langmuir (; January 31, 1881 – August 16, 1957) 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's most famous publicatio ...

(1881–1957), American Nobel Prize-winning chemist and physicist

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