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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) The langmuir (symbol: L) is a unit of exposure (or dosage) to a surface (''e.g.'' of a crystal) and is used in ultra-high vacuum (UHV) surface physics to study the adsorption of gases. It is a practical unit, and is not dimensionally homogeneous, ...
, a unit of exposure of an adsorbate/gas to a substrate used in surface science to study adsorption *
Langmuir Cove Arrowsmith Peninsula () is a cape about long on the west coast of Graham Land, west of Forel Glacier, Sharp Glacier and Lallemand Fjord, and northwest of Bourgeois Fjord, with Hanusse Bay lying to the northwest. It was surveyed by the Falkland Is ...
, a cove in the north end of Arrowsmith Peninsula, Graham Land, Antarctica *
Langmuir monolayer A monolayer is a single, closely packed layer of entities, commonly atoms or molecules. Monolayers can also be made out of cells. ''Self-assembled monolayers'' form spontaneously on surfaces. Monolayers of layered crystals like graphene and molyb ...
, a one-molecule thick layer of an insoluble organic material spread onto an aqueous subphase in a Langmuir-Blodgett trough


People

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Alexander Langmuir Alexander Duncan Langmuir (; September 12, 1910 – November 22, 1993) was an American epidemiology, epidemiologist who served as Chief Epidemiologist of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) from 1949 to 1970, developing the Epid ...
(1910–1993), American epidemiologist *
Gavin I. Langmuir Gavin I. Langmuir (April 2, 1924 – July 10, 2005) was a Canadian medievalist historian. Much of his work focused on the Jews of medieval England and the history of antisemitism. Veteran of World War II, a historian of antisemitism, and a medi ...
(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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