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Researcher · General Electric (Switzerland) · Switzerland

Irving Langmuir

Irving Langmuir publishes mostly in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, on topics such as Plasma Diagnostics and Applications, History and advancements in chemistry and Quantum, superfluid, helium dynamics.

OpenAlex
World rank
#3,437
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in Switzerland
#77
of 19,404
Works
64
Citations
3.6k
Citations per work
56.6

What does Irving Langmuir research?

Electrical and Electronic Engineering: 12.7%Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 10.1%Physical and Theoretical Chemistry: 6.3%Materials Chemistry: 6.3%other fields: 64.6%13%top field
Electrical and Electronic Engineering12.7%Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics10.1%Physical and Theoretical Chemistry6.3%Materials Chemistry6.3%other fields64.6%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Electrical and Electronic Engineering13% of their works
  2. 2Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics10% of their works
  3. 3Physical and Theoretical Chemistry6% of their works
  4. 4Materials Chemistry6% of their works
  5. 5Biomedical Engineering5% of their works
  6. 6History and Philosophy of Science4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Irving Langmuir's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Plasma Etching, Semiconductor Industry, Catalysis, Helium Nanodroplets, Partially Ordered Sets, Periodic Table, Quantum Turbulence and Chemistry Education.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Plasma Etching51 topic
  2. Semiconductor Industry51 topic
  3. Catalysis42 topics
  4. Helium Nanodroplets31 topic
  5. Partially Ordered Sets31 topic
  6. Periodic Table31 topic
  7. Quantum Turbulence31 topic
  8. Chemistry Education21 topic
  9. Dehydrogenation21 topic
  10. Extraction21 topic
  11. Laboratory Techniques21 topic
  12. Oxidative21 topic
  13. Solvent Selection21 topic
  14. Supercritical Fluids21 topic
  15. Sustainable Chemistry21 topic
  16. fusion materials21 topic
  17. radiation damage21 topic

Where does Irving Langmuir work?

Irving Langmuir's main affiliation in the publication record is General Electric (Switzerland), Switzerland.

How many publications and citations does Irving Langmuir have?

Science Explorer counts 64 works and 3,624 citations for Irving Langmuir, ranking #3,437 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite score.

Ranked on field-normalised excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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