Talk:Irving Langmuir

message: I am about to begin a full-face lift of this article; while it is ok in its current form i feel that it can be (and should be) much larger. So please bare with me as a move things around here and there, oh and please fell free to correct any spelling/grammar mistakes as i am a bad speller. bakuzjw (aka 578) 01:16, 7 Feb 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Updating 

message: "complications of nature" (in childhood section) --should be modernized? 70.57.139.181 01:44, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Phrase 

message: HULL AW
LANGMUIR,IRVING CONTRIBUTIONS TO PHYSICS 
NATURE 181 (4603): 148-149 1958
SCHAEFER UJ
LANGMUIR,IRVING MAN OF MANY INTERESTS 
SCIENCE 127 (3308): 1227-1229 1958--Stone 21:04, 11 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: References

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message: The biography section (Later Years) states that "He joined Katharine B. Blodgett to study thin films and surface absorption." However, as confirmed by the given external link: "Irving Langmuir a great physical Chemist", his work was on surface adsorption (with a "d"). This may be a little on the nit-picky side, but although the spelling difference between "adsorption" and "absorption" may be small, the difference is substantial. I believe this was most likely a simple typo by the author so I will go ahead and make the edit. 52.129.8.52 (talk) 14:05, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Absorption vs. Adsorption

message: I can't find any references online to the ice skating accident. There are no references included in this article to verify it. Further, it strikes me as extremely suspect that the ability to remember things from when he was 10 years old (1891) would be of any use to remembering WW1 battle plans, since he would have been over 30 years old during WW1. And in any case, if he was at university at the time, how would he have any useful knowledge of battle plans? This is most likely a fake statement, I'm deleting it until someone can find a reference for it  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.165.172.116 (talk) 02:02, 23 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Personal Life

message: The very last paragraph of the "Research" section is pretty much a word-for-word copy of the cited source. Moreover, I would not consider the cited source to be a good source on biographical information especially since that source is using the supposed information to further an agenda. Additionally, that source has a flagrant misunderstanding of zero-point energy (it argues that energy may be "squeezed" from the vacuum and collected by a device) which calls in to question the source's validity. This page contains the offending narrative on zero-point energy. 
I think that we should either use a better source for this last paragraph, or we should remove it from the article.
--128.104.69.65 (talk) 15:18, 26 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Research: Possible removal of paragraph 

message: The Union Alumni Review, Volume 4, page 272 states Dr. Irving Langmuir is the inventor of something called a Diatron.  But I am not sure what he invented that was called a diatron. I have made a request to add an entry for diatron in Wiktionary.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Thinkadoodle (talk • contribs) 18:42, 30 July 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Did he invent the "Diatron" 

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