Irving Langmuir
Nominations
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1932
Irving Langmuir
Nominated on 15 occasions for the Nobel Prize in
- Physics 1916, by James Clark
- Physics 1928, by Niels Bohr
- Physics 1929, by Niels Bohr
- Physics 1933, by Karl Compton
- Physics 1940, by Cecil Fortescue
- Chemistry 1927, by James Clark
- Chemistry 1928, by Leo Baekeland
- Chemistry 1929, by Herbert Freundlich
- Chemistry 1929, by Henry Osborn
- Chemistry 1929, by Ernst Riesenfeld
- Chemistry 1929, by James Clark
- Chemistry 1931, by Karl Landsteiner
- Chemistry 1931, by Theodor Svedberg
- Chemistry 1932, by Hans von Euler-Chelpin
- Chemistry 1932, by James Kendall
Submitted 3 nominations, for the Nobel Prize in
- Physics 1939, nominee: Ernest Lawrence
- Chemistry 1933, nominee: Gilbert Lewis
- Chemistry 1939, nominee: Dorothy Wrinch
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