Charles Édouard Guillaume
1861 – 1938 · aged 77
Swiss physicist (1861-1938)
- Born
- 15 Feb 1861 · Fleurier
- Died
- 13 Jun 1938 · Sèvres
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- 15 Feb 1861BornBorn in Fleurier
- 1908AwardOfficer of the Legion of Honour
- 1914AwardJohn Scott Award
- 1915 – 1936RoleDirector
- 1920AwardGuthrie Lecture
- 1920AwardNobel Prize in Physics
- 1928AwardDennis Gabor Medal and Prize
- 1934AwardDoctor honoris causa from the University of Paris
- 1937AwardGrand Officer of the Legion of Honour
- 13 Jun 1938DiedDied in Sèvres
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Meanwhile in the world
Major world events during their lifetime (1861 – 1938).
- 1870 – 1871Franco-Prussian War
- 18961896 Summer Olympics
- 1898Spanish–American War
- 1904 – 1905Russo-Japanese War
- 1914 – 1918World War I
- 1915 – 1923Armenian genocide
- 1917Balfour Declaration
- 1917February Revolution
- 1917October Revolution
- 1917 – 1922Russian Civil War
- 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
- 1920Treaty of Versailles
- 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
- 19341934 FIFA World Cup
- 19361936 Summer Olympics
- 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
- 19381938 FIFA World Cup
- 1938Munich Agreement
Biography
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."
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