Irving Langmuir
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<Irving Langmuir> investigated gas adsorption on solid surfaces. The <Langmuir adsorption model> treats a surface as a set of sites that can each be empty or occupied, balancing adsorption against desorption.
The finite number of sites produces saturation: increasing gas <pressure> cannot raise single-layer occupancy above one <molecule> per site in this model. Lateral interactions and multilayer formation require a different description.<The Adsorption of Gases on Plane Surfaces of Glass, Mica and Platinum by Irving Langmuir>[1918, site occupancy and adsorption isotherms]{ref}
A <chemist> working on <physical chemistry>.
Biographical archive: https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/gdc/gdcfindingaidpdfs/ms012160/ms012160.pdf
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