Irving Langmuir, the General Electric Research Laboratory, and when applications lead to theory
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To this point, I’ve written tens of thousands of words on this Substack covering the work of scientists from the early-to-mid-1900s — a golden era of American science and innovation — in a familiar setting: the university. But, in fact, the university is not the setting in which I first came to know most of these famous scientists. I initially read about most of these researchers in books like
Irving Langmuir, the General Electric Research Laboratory, and when applications lead to theory
Irving Langmuir, the General Electric…
Irving Langmuir, the General Electric Research Laboratory, and when applications lead to theory
To this point, I’ve written tens of thousands of words on this Substack covering the work of scientists from the early-to-mid-1900s — a golden era of American science and innovation — in a familiar setting: the university. But, in fact, the university is not the setting in which I first came to know most of these famous scientists. I initially read about most of these researchers in books like