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The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.

[In the case of research director, Willis R. Whitney, whose style was to give talented investigators...

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Irving Langmuir

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Born: 1881-01-31

Died: 1957-08-16

Irving Langmuir (31 January 1881 – 16 August 1957) was an American chemist and physicist. His most noted publication was the famous 1919 article "The Arrangement of Electrons in Atoms and Molecules" in which, building on Gilbert N. Lewis's cubical atom theory and Walther Kossel's chemical bonding theory, he outlined his "concentric theory of atomic structure". He was awarded the 1932 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work in surface chemistry.More