✦ Mortalbook
← Remembered
Charles-Édouard Guillaume

Charles-Édouard Guillaume

February 15, 1861 –June 13, 1938

Physicist, Researcher

Lived 77 years

Born in
Fleurier
Passed away in
Sèvres

Charles-Édouard Guillaume (French: [ʃaʁl edwaʁ gijom]; 15 February 1861 – 13 June 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." In 1919, he gave the fifth Guthrie Lecture at the Institute of Physics in London with the title "The Anomaly of the Nickel-Steels."

Awards: Nobel Prize in Physics, Officer of the Legion of Honour, Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour, Guthrie Lecture, Dennis Gabor Medal and Prize, John Scott Award, doctor honoris causa from the University of Paris Education: ETH Zurich, University of Zurich

Source: Wikipedia — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles-%C3%89douard_Guillaume