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Irving Langmuir<br />

1881 - 1957<br />

American physico-chemist<br />

1932 Nobel-price in chemistry<br />

• 1917 – lipids form a monolayer on <strong>the</strong><br />

surface <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> water<br />

polar heads (hydrophilic) – oriented<br />

toward <strong>the</strong> water<br />

nonpolar tails (hydrophobic) – oriented<br />

away from water<br />

Irving Langmuir, "<strong>The</strong> Constitution and Fundamental Properties <strong>of</strong> Solids and Liquids. II," Journal <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> American Chemical Society 39 (1917): 1848-1906.<br />

water

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