Charles Edouard Guillaume (February 15, 1861 May 13, 1938) received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1920 in recognition of the service he had rendered to precision measurements in Physics by his discovery of anomalies in nickel steel alloys.
He discovered alloys which he called "invar" and "elinvar" which were useful in building precision instruments.
Guillaume worked with Kristian Birkeland. He served at the Observatoire de ParisSection de Meudon. He conducted several experiments with thermostatic measurements at the observatory. He was the first to determine the correct temperature of space.
Published works
- Guillaume, Charles-Edouard, "La Température de L'Espace", La Nature, volume 24, 1896.
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External links and references
Nobel Lectures, Physics 1901-1921, " Charles-Edouard Guillaume Biography". Elsevier Publishing Company, Amsterdam.
lanl.gov, "History". Pioneers in the development of the Plasma Universe.
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