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Charles-Edouard Guillaume

Charles-Edouard Guillaume (1861-1938) was a genius physicist born in Fleurier, Switzerland, who completed his studies in Neuchâtel before obtaining an engineering degree from the Federal Polytechnic School in Zurich. Guillaume joined the International Bureau of Weights and Measures in Paris in 1883, where he worked for 53 years and became its director for 17 years until 1936. Guillaume's work on the alloys of iron, chromium, and nickel led to the discovery of Invar, a substance with almost zero expansion coefficient over a wide temperature range, and Elinvar, a substance with a constant Young's modulus between - 50° and + 100°, which is suitable for the construction of watch springs, tuning forks, springs for seismographs, and more. Guillaume received numerous awards and honors, including the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1920. He retired in 1936 and passed away in 1938 after a long illness.

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Charles Édouard Guillaume

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1861 - 1938

Charles Édouard Guillaume

Charles Édouard Guillaume (French: [ʃaʁl edwaʁ gijom]; 15 February 1861 – 13 May 1938) was a Swiss physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1920 "for the service he had rendered to precision measurements in physics by his discovery of anomalies in nickel steel alloys". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Charles Édouard Guillaume has received more than 136,248 page views. His biography is available in 80 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 73 in 2019). Charles Édouard Guillaume is the 57th most popular physicist (up from 92nd in 2019), the 18th most popular biography from Switzerland (up from 28th in 2019) and the most popular Swiss Physicist.

Charles Édouard Guillaume was a French physicist who is most famous for his discovery of the electromagnetic waves that are used in radio communications.

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    Charles Edouard Guillaume (1861–1938)

    Physicist

    Charles Edouard Guillaume was born in Fleurier in the Swiss Canton of Neuchatel on 15 February 1861. His father and grandfather were both clockmakers and his father’s family originally came from France. Guillaume went to grammar school in Neuchatel and attended the academy there, which went on to become the university, from 1877 to 1878.

    Studies at the Federal Polytechnic Institute

    In the winter of 1878, he embarked on a degree in mathematics (Section VI A) at the Federal Polytechnic Institute in Zurich), which he completed with a diploma as a teacher of mathematics on 4 August 1882 (The ETH Library, University Archives. Student Register EZ-Rek 1/1/4769).

    Promoting and years in Paris

    In 1883 he obtained a doctorate under Heinrich Friedrich Weber at the University of Zurich as the Polytechnic was not yet permitted to award doctorates. The very same year, Guillaume became an assistant at the International Bureau of Weights and Measures in Sèvres, near Paris, and from 1889 an adjunct. In 1888 he married Emilie Marie Ann

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