Charles-Édouard Guillaume
Charles-Édouard Guillaume | |
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Guillaume in 1920 | |
| Director of the International Bureau of Weights and Measures | |
| In office 1915–1936 | |
| Preceded by | Justin-Mirande René Benoit |
| Succeeded by | Albert Pérard |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 15 February 1861 Fleurier, Canton of Neuchâtel, Switzerland |
| Died | 13 June 1938 (aged 77) |
| Scientific career | |
| Alma mater | Federal Polytechnic Institute (Dr. phil.) |
| Known for | Discovering invar and elinvar (1895) |
| Spouse |
A. M. Taufflieb (m. 1888) |
| Children | 3 |
| Awards |
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| Fields | Physics |
| Institutions | International Bureau of Weights and Measures (1883–1936) |
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".