Honors
- Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1918)
- Perkin Medal (1928)
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1932)
- Franklin Medal (1934)
- John J. Carty Award of the National Academy of Sciences (1950)
- Mount Langmuir (elevation 8022 ft / 2445m ) in Alaska is named after him (Chugach National Forest, Copper River, AK)
- Langmuir College, a residential college at Stony Brook University in H-Quad, named for him in 1970
- grandson, Roger R Summerhayes, directed/wrote/produced/edited a 57 minute documentary in 1999 called Langmuir's World
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