Irving Langmuir's pioneering work on gas-solid interfaces, conducted at the General Electric Research Lab in Schenectady, New York, is credited as a foundation of surface chemistry. The chapter notes that Langmuir won the Nobel Prize in 1932 and that the American Chemical Society named a journal after him, but it does not explain the actual chemistry of what happens at a gas-solid interface or what specific discovery he made.
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42:01that. Um this was at the General Electric Research Lab in New York. Pioneering work to gas solid interfaces. The American Chemical Society has a journal named after him, Langmir. And that is a shout out to my cousin Sasui Panda who is now Dr. Sasu Panda. She got her research published on the cover of that magazine. >> Amazing. Any chance I get to say the name Shenect New York? Shenkity New York won the Nobel Prize in 1932. >> Yeah, I don't want to. I didn't know how to say it. So So that's Yeah, but that that's where the research lab was. >> 1918 mapping the true shape of the Milky
42:43Way galaxy, home to humanity. >> Yeah. Um, astronomy has been a story of finding out we're not all that. Okay? We used to think we're the center of the solar system. Nope. We used to think at least the sun should be the center of the Milky Way. Nope. Harlo Chappley used the Mount Wilson 60in telescope right out here in LA. And he charted the distribution of globular clusters where the globular clusters are. And he showed that the globular clusters are actually a distribution where the sun is not at the center and that's what you see on the right hand