The quintessence of Irving Langmuir.
The Quintessence of Irving Langmuir is a biography on the life of Irving Langmuir. The book was created to complement the volume entitled "The Collected Works of Irving Langmuir”. This selection was created to introduce the person and his works. Special attention has been given to Langmuir'...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford, New York,
Pergamon Press
[1966]
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| Edition: | [1st ed.]. |
| Series: | Men of physics.
Commonwealth and international library. Selected readings in physics. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | The Quintessence of Irving Langmuir is a biography on the life of Irving Langmuir. The book was created to complement the volume entitled "The Collected Works of Irving Langmuir”. This selection was created to introduce the person and his works. Special attention has been given to Langmuir's early life and family background. The text begins with an account of the person's child seen from the mother's perspective. Such an account was taken from the family's documents. These documents are in the form of letters, diaries, photograph albums, newspaper clippings, and genealogical studies. A brief. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (369 pages) portrait |
| Format: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-336). |
| ISBN: | 9781483180762 148318076X |