Irving langmuir: o milagre da ciência

Irving Langmuir received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1932 "...for his outstanding discoveries and investigations within the field of surface chemistry", according to the Swedish Academy. However, few people know that his work comprises other very important contributions, and not only for chemistry, such as the discovery of plasma, the atomic hydrogen, the pure thermoionic phenomenon, the development of the cloud seeding technique for weather modification, among many others. This paper summarizes Langmuir's most important discoveries and theories, with an especial mention for his practical inventions and his work on the atomic theory.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gugliotti,Marcos
Format: Digital revista
Language:Portuguese
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Química 2001
Online Access:http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-40422001000400020
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