Charles Edouard Guillaume

Born: 1861-02-15 in Fleurier, Switzerland

Gender: male

Field: Swiss physicist (1861–1938)

Biography

Charles Édouard Guillaume 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". In 1919, he gave the fifth Guthrie Lecture at the Institute of Physics in London with the title "The Anomaly of the Nickel-Steels".

Nobel Prize Details

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1920

Awarded on: 1920-11-11

"in recognition of the service he has rendered to precision measurements in Physics by his discovery of anomalies in nickel steel alloys"

Affiliations:

Bureau International des Poids et Mesures (International Bureau of Weights and Measures) – Sèvres, France

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