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The concept of the oriented monolayer is the foundation stone of modern colloid and interface science. It has universal importance in Nature, in biology, and in very many industrial and also domestic operations. We usually regard Langmuir as its discoverer, knowing that he received the Nobel Prize in 1932 for his work in this field. But he acknowledged his debt to his forerunners, especially Rayleigh. Here we briefly review their work and attempt to sort out the threads which make up the story of the discovery of the monolayer. The evidence on which the statements below are based is given in detail in earlier papers.1–4
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Giles, C.H. (1982). Historical Aspects of Surfactant Adsorption at Liquid Surfaces. In: Mittal, K.L., Fendler, E.J. (eds) Solution Behavior of Surfactants. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-3491-0_5
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