Charles Édouard Guillaume
Charles Édouard Guillaume | |
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Guillaume in 1920 | |
| Born | 15 February 1861 Fleurier, Canton of Neuchâtel, Switzerland |
| Died | 13 June 1938 (aged 77) |
| Alma mater | Eidgenössische Polytechnische Schule (PhD, 1883) |
| Known for | Discovering invar and elinvar (1895) |
| Spouse |
A. M. Taufflieb (m. 1888) |
| Children | 3 |
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| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physics |
| Institutions | International Bureau of Weights and Measures |
| 5th Director of the International Bureau of Weights and Measures | |
| In office 1915–1936 | |
| Preceded by | Justin-Mirande René Benoit |
| Succeeded by | Albert Pérard |
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".