Langmuir Lecture
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". Langmuir became embroiled in a priority dispute with Lewis over this work; Langmuir's presentation skills were largely responsible for the popularization of the theory, although the credit for the theory itself belongs mostly to Lewis. While at General Electric, from 1909-1950, Langmuir advanced several basic fields of physics and chemistry, invented the gas-filled incandescent lamp, the hydrogen welding technique, and was awarded the 1932 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work in surface chemistry. He was the first industrial chemist to become a Nobel laureate. The American Chemical Society Journal for Surface Science is named Langmuir in his honor.
The Division of Colloid and Surface Chemistry of the American Chemical Society presents the Langnmuir award annually at the American Chemical Society National Meeting.
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Recent Langmuir Award Recipients
2007
C. M. Lieber
Nanowires, nanoscience and nanotechnologies.
M. G. Bawendi
Science and technology of nanocrystal quantum dots.
2008
Martinus A. Cohen Stuart
Charge-driven self-assembly: Micelles, worms, fibrils and gels
Miquel Salmeron
Water at interfaces: Adsorption, reactions, wetting
2009
Jennifer A. Lewis
Microscale patterning of functional colloidal architectures
Phillip B. Messersmith
Biointerfacial aspects of mussel adhesive proteins and their biomimetic analogs
2010
Robert M. Lambert
Catalytic Chemistry and Self-Assembly on Metal Surfaces
Vincent M. Rotello
Engineering the Nanoparticle Interface for Materials and Biological Applications
2011
Steve Granick
Janus Colloids
Flemming Besenbacher
Catalytic Model Systems Studied by High-Resolution, Video-Rate Scanning Tunneling Microscopy
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Past Langmuir Award Recipients
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1979 |
John Yates Janos Fendler |
University of Pittsburgh Clarkson University |
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1980 |
Michel Boudart Milton Kerker |
Stanford University Clarkson University |
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1981 |
Art Adamson Robert Madix |
University of Southern California Stanford University |
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1982 |
Ernest Yeager W. Keith Hall |
Case Western Reserve University University of Pittsburgh |
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1983 |
Paul Becher Paul Weisz |
Paul Becher Associates Mobil Research & Development, Princeton |
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1984 |
J.A. Mann Mark Cardillo |
Case Western University AT&T Bell Laboratories |
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1985 |
Egon Matijevic R.L. Burwell, Jr. |
Clarkson University Northwestern University |
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1986 |
Gerhard Ertl Benjamin Widom |
Fritz-Haber Inst. de MPG, Berlin Cornell University |
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1987 |
D. Fennel Evans K. Klier |
University of Minnesota Lehigh University |
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1988 |
J. Lunsford Ron Ottewill |
Texas A&M University University of Bristol |
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1989 |
George M. Whitesides Sylvia T. Ceyer |
Harvard University Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
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1990 |
George L. Gaines, Jr. Gabor A. Somorjai |
Rensselaer Polytech Institute University of California, Berkeley |
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1991 |
Stig. Friberg D.Wayne Goodman |
Clarkson University Texas A&M University |
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1992 |
Alexis T. Bell Dennis Chapman |
University of California, Berkeley University of London |
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1993 |
Jacob N. Israelachvili J. Michael White |
UC-Santa Barbara University of Texas |
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1994 |
Eli Ruckenstein Benjamin Chu |
SUNY, Buffalo SUNY, Stony Brook |
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1995 |
Alice P. Gast Cynthia M. Friend |
Stanford University Harvard University |
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1996 |
Gerhard J. Fleer Graham J. Hutchings |
Wageningen University University of Wales |
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1997 |
Matthew V. Tirrell William A. Goddard |
University of Minnesota California Institute of Technology |
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1998 |
Bjorn Lindman Srinivasan Manne |
University of Lund University of Arizona |
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1999 |
Hyuk Yu Mark E. Davis |
University of Wisconsin California Institute of Technology |
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2000 |
Marie-Paul Pileni Hermann Gaub |
University Pierre et Marie Curie Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich |
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2001 |
Malgorzota Borowko James A. Schwarz |
Marie Curie Sklodowska University, Lublin Syracuse University |
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2002 |
William B. Russel Martin Malmsten |
Princeton University Uppsala University |
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2003 |
David J. Pine John C. Polanyi |
UC-Santa Barbara University of Toronto |
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2004 |
Israel Wachs Darsh Wasan |
Lehigh University Illinois Institute of Technology |
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2005 |
Hans-Joachim Freund Jay T. Groves |
Fritz-Haber Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft University of California Berkeley |
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2006 |
Arjun G. Yodh Thomas J. McCarthy |
University of Pennsylvania University of Masschusetts, Amherst |