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Langmuir (crater) Langmuir is an impact crater on the Moon's far side. It is located in a region to the southwest of the Mare Orientale impact basin. Langmuir is bracketed between two larger craters, with Chebyshev to the west-northwest and Brouwer to the east. It ...

, an impact crater on the Moon's far side * ''Langmuir'' (journal), an academic journal on colloids, surfaces and interfaces, published by the American Chemical Society *

Langmuir (unit) The langmuir (symbol: L) is a unit of exposure (or dosage) to a surface (''e.g.'' of a crystal) and is used in ultra-high vacuum (UHV) surface physics to study the adsorption of gases. It is a practical unit, and is not dimensionally homogeneous, ...

, a unit of exposure of an adsorbate/gas to a substrate used in surface science to study adsorption *

Langmuir Cove Arrowsmith Peninsula () is a cape about long on the west coast of Graham Land, west of Forel Glacier, Sharp Glacier and Lallemand Fjord, and northwest of Bourgeois Fjord, with Hanusse Bay lying to the northwest. It was surveyed by the Falkland I ...

, a cove in the north end of Arrowsmith Peninsula, Graham Land, Antarctica * Langmuir monolayer, a one-molecule thick layer of an insoluble organic material spread onto an aqueous subphase in a Langmuir-Blodgett trough

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Alexander Langmuir Alexander Duncan Langmuir (12 September 1910 – 22 November 1993) was an American epidemiologist. He is renowned for creating the Epidemic Intelligence Service. Biography Alexander D. Langmuir was born in Santa Monica, California. He received h ...

(1910–1993), American epidemiologist * Gavin I. Langmuir (1924–2005), Canadian veteran of World War II, historian of anti-Semitism and medievalist at Stanford University * Irving Langmuir (1881–1957), American Nobel Prize-winning chemist and physicist

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