Editing Irving Langmuir (section)

===Personal life===
Langmuir was married to Marion Mersereau (1883–1971) in 1912 with whom he adopted two children: Kenneth and Barbara. After a short illness, he died in [[Woods Hole, Massachusetts]] from a heart attack on August 16, 1957. His obituary ran on the front page of ''[[The New York Times]]''.<ref>{{cite news | author=Staff writers | title=Dr. Irving Langmuir Dies at 76; Winner of Nobel Chemistry Prize | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1957/08/17/archives/dr-irving-langmuir-dies-at-76-winner-of-nobel-chemistry-prize.html | work=The New York Times | date=August 17, 1957 | access-date=October 20, 2008}}</ref>

On his religious views, Langmuir was an agnostic.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Quintessence of Irving Langmuir|year=1961|publisher=Pergamon Press|page=150|author=Albert Rosenfeld|quote=Though Marion herself was not an assiduous churchgoer and had no serious objection to Irving's agnostic views, her grandfather had been an Episcopalian clergyman.}}</ref>