Science: Nobel Prize for Chemistry

Dr. Irving Langmuir of General Electric is going skiing over the hills back of Stockholm next month,'if events do not interfere. But his serious reason for traveling the thousands of miles between Stockholm and Schenectady will be to receive the 1932 Nobel Prize for Chemistry ($30,000) which the Swedish Academy of Science assigned him last week.

No one with General Electric was happier over Dr. Langmuir's new honor than Dr. William David Coolidge. Drs. Coolidge and Langmuir are good old friends and General Electric collaborators. They have worked together in the same laboratory the...

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