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11 Things You Didn’t Know About Our Residence Halls

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Irving Langmuir
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Eugene O’Neill

3. You might be living in a building named after a Nobel Prize winner!

Irving Langmuir was a chemist who contributed to the Langmuir-Lewis theory — of chemical attraction and valence based on the structure of the atom — and went on to earn the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Eugene O’Neill, a dramatist who attended Princeton University, became the first American dramatist to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.

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