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Inventor Who was the inventor of the 18-electron rule?

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According to wikipediaWikipedia, the first person who proposed 18-electron rule18-electron rule was American chemist Irving Langmuir. While, but the 18-electron rule is widely known by the name Sidgwick's rule.

  I cannot find any information about Sidgwick on the Internet at all. So is Sidgwick a name of, was he a scientist?

Inventor of 18-electron rule

This is more of a history question

According to wikipedia, the first person who proposed 18-electron rule was American chemist Irving Langmuir. While the 18-electron rule is widely known by the name Sidgwick's rule.

  I cannot find any information about Sidgwick on the Internet at all. So is Sidgwick a name of a scientist?

Who was the inventor of the 18-electron rule?

According to Wikipedia, the first person who proposed 18-electron rule was American chemist Irving Langmuir, but the rule is widely known by the name Sidgwick's rule. I cannot find any information about Sidgwick, was he a scientist?

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Inventor of 18-electron rule

This is more of a history question

According to wikipedia, the first person who proposed 18-electron rule was American chemist Irving Langmuir. While the 18-electron rule is widely known by the name Sidgwick's rule.

I cannot find any information about Sidgwick on the Internet at all. So is Sidgwick a name of a scientist?