Irving Langmuir, Rudolf Mössbauer and Franz Schubert

Posted by Tel Asiado Jan 31, 2009

This day, January 31, we remember three great celebrants, two of them, Irving Langmuir and Rudolf Mössbauer, were awarded the Nobel Prize, and Schubert is a famous composer.

Irving Langmuir (31 January 1881 – 16 August 1957) was an American chemist. He is known for his 1919 article "The Arrangement of Electrons in Atoms and Molecules" in which he outlined his "concentric theory of atomic structure." He advanced several basic fields of chamistry and physics, invented the gas-filled incandescent lamp, among others. It was his work in surface chemistry that he was awarded the 1932 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Langmuir was the first industrial chemist to become a Nobel laureate. The Langmuir Laboratory for Atmospheric Research near New Mexico and the American Chemical Society (ACS) jorunal for Surface Science, are called Langmuir, in his honor.

Rudolf Ludwig Mössbauer is born on January 31, 1929, a German physicist known for his discovery of a nuclear process, the "Mössbauer Effect." He studied nuclear transitions and the gamma rays. In 1957, he discovered the famous "Mössbauer Effect" named after him, after a research that he worked on as a PhD student in Heidelberg, at the Physics Institute of the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research. For his work on this, he won the Nobel Pize in Physics in 1961, along with American Robert Hofstadter.

Last but not the least, I'd like to include one of the famous composers, Austrian composer, Franz Schubert, the greatest melodist of all time Here's a link to Schubert's biography.