Editing Irving Langmuir (section)

===Education===
[[File:Langmuir-sitting.jpg|thumb|Langmuir c. 1900]]
Langmuir attended several schools and institutes in America and Paris (1892–1895) before graduating high school from [[Chestnut Hill Academy]] (1898), an elite private school located in the affluent [[Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia|Chestnut Hill]] area in Philadelphia. He graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in [[metallurgical engineering]] ([[Metallurgy|Met.E.]]) from the [[Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science|Columbia University School of Mines]] in 1903. He earned his PhD in 1906 under {{Ill|Friedrich Dolezalek|de|Friedrich Dolezalek (Chemiker)}}<ref>{{Cite web |title=Langmuir, Irving, 1881-1957 |url=https://history.aip.org/phn/11802004.html |access-date=2024-03-24 |website=history.aip.org}}</ref> in [[Göttingen]], for research done using the "[[Nernst glower]]", an electric lamp invented by Nernst. His doctoral thesis was entitled "On the Partial Recombination of Dissolved Gases During Cooling" ({{Langx|de|Ueber partielle Wiedervereinigung dissociierter Gase im Verlauf einer Abkühlung}}).<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Suits |first1=C. Guy |last2=Martin |first2=Miles J. |date=1974 |title=Irving Langmuir 1881—1957 |url=https://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/langmuir-irving.pdf |journal=National Academy of Sciences}}</ref> He later did postgraduate work in chemistry. Langmuir then taught at [[Stevens Institute of Technology]] in [[Hoboken, New Jersey]], until 1909, when he began working at the [[General Electric]] research laboratory ([[Schenectady, New York]]).