Eric Langmuir was one of that select number of individuals to have produced a manual or textbook of such biblical authority that it has become known simply by the author's surname. "Langmuir" is ...

The chemist Irving Langmuir had already won a Nobel Prize, but he’d never screamed in delight during an experiment before. It was November 13, 1946. He was standing in a control tower at the ...

Three years after the brutal 2005 season that brought Katrina and other storms, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security began studying how to quell hurricanes. Some of the ideas it looked at, like ...

Davarajan Thirumalai, a professor of chemistry, received the Irving Langmuir Prize in Chemical Physics. A chemist at the University of Texas at Austin has been awarded the top prize for chemical ...

Eric Langmuir, who has died aged 74, was a well-known climber, ski instructor, orienteer and author - his book Mountaincraft and Leadership, first published in 1969, is often referred to simply as ...