The award consists of $5,000 and a certificate. The American Chemical Society makes the presentation in even-numbered years. The American Physical Society makes the presentation in odd-numbered years.

The chemist Irving Langmuir had already won a Nobel Prize, but he’d never screamed in delight during an experiment before. It was November 13, 1946. He was standing in a control tower at the ...

The steady state reaction-diffusion problem for a permeable catalytic particle is considered, when the reaction rate is of the Langmuir-Hinshelwood type and the activation energy is large. It is shown ...

Gilbert C. Walker, professor of chemistry at the University of Toronto, has been named editor-in-chief of the ACS journal Langmuir, which highlights advances in the understanding of interfaces. He ...