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    Charles Édouard Guillaume (15 February 1861 – 13 May 1938) was a Swiss physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1920 "for the service he had...
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  • economics. Édouard Guillaume was the younger cousin of Charles Édouard Guillaume, who won the Nobel prize in physics in 1920. Both of the Guillaume cousins...
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    The discovery of the alloy was made in 1895 by Swiss physicist Charles Édouard Guillaume for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1920. It enabled...
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    general Charles Édouard Guillaume (1861–1938), French-Swiss physicist Edith Guillaume (1943–2013), Danish opera singer Günter Guillaume (1927–1995), a...
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  • by Charles Édouard Guillaume, a Swiss physicist who also invented Invar, another alloy of nickel and iron with very low thermal expansion. Guillaume won...
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    Charles-Édouard Jeanneret (6 October 1887 – 27 August 1965), known as Le Corbusier (UK: /lə kɔːrˈbjuːzi.eɪ/ lə kor-BEW-zee-ay, US: /lə ˌkɔːrbuːzˈjeɪ,...
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    neutrino background and extragalactic background light. 1896: Charles Édouard Guillaume estimates the "radiation of the stars" to be 5.6 K. 1926: Sir...
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    administrative district of Val-de-Travers. The Nobel laureates, physicist Charles Édouard Guillaume and pharmacologist Daniel Bovet, both originated from Fleurier...
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  • the stars” in his 1896 article "La Température de L'Espace" by Charles Édouard Guillaume Nucleic acid, DNA by Friedrich Miescher (1868) Restriction endonuclease...
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  • von Salomé (died 1937), Russian-born psychoanalyst. February 15 Charles Édouard Guillaume (died 1938), French physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in...
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    Johannes Stark None Jules Bordet Carl Spitteler Woodrow Wilson 1920 Charles Édouard Guillaume Walther Nernst August Krogh Knut Hamsun Léon Bourgeois 1921 Albert...
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  • palladium-made balance wheel, balance spring and the lever shaft. In 1896 Charles Édouard Guillaume discovered the nickel based alloy Invar. Afterwards, in 1920,...
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    obsolete in the early 20th century by advances in metallurgy. Charles Édouard Guillaume won a Nobel prize for the 1896 invention of Invar, a nickel steel...
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    glazes. The sintered oxide is used to produce nickel steel alloys. Charles Édouard Guillaume won the 1920 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on nickel steel...
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    decay, evaporation of black holes, and positronium decay. 1896 – Charles Édouard Guillaume estimates the "radiation of the stars" to be 5–6 K. 1926 – Sir...
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    that year's nominations met the necessary criteria, but was awarded to Charles Glover Barkla in 1918 and counted as the 1917 prize. This precedent was...
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    J.-René Benoît France 1889–1915 Charles Édouard Guillaume Switzerland 1915–1936 Albert Pérard France 1936–1951 Charles Volet Switzerland 1951–1961 Jean...
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    American paleobotany Édouard Piaget (1817 in Les Bayards – 1910) a Swiss entomologist who specialised in lice Charles Édouard Guillaume (1861 in Fleurier...
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    invariable elasticity at normal temperatures. The inventor was Charles Édouard Guillaume, who won the 1920 Nobel Prize for physics in recognition for his...
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  • Chemistry, 1937 Albert Einstein, born in Germany, Physics, 1921 Charles Édouard Guillaume, Physics, 1920 Carl Spitteler, Literature, 1919 Alfred Werner...
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    Dyson - Astronomer Royal who introduced Greenwich pips. 1930 Charles Édouard Guillaume - developed Invar and Elinvar 1931 William Hamilton Shortt (1881-1971)...
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    Observatory. He also worked closely with Physics Nobel prize winner Charles-Edouard Guillaume and has been considered the father of the modern chronometers...
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    before the pendulum became obsolete as a time standard. In 1896 Charles Édouard Guillaume invented the nickel steel alloy Invar. This has a CTE of around...
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  • explorer, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1861) 1938 – Charles Édouard Guillaume, Swiss-French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b...
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  • (1876–1973) Peter Grünberg – Germany (1939–2018) Nobel laureate Charles Édouard Guillaume – Switzerland (1861–1931) Nobel laureate Ayyub Guliyev – Azerbaijan...
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    Around 1900, a fundamentally different solution was created by Charles Édouard Guillaume, inventor of elinvar. This is a nickel-steel alloy with the property...
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    Guillaume Édouard Marie Dubufe (16 May 1853, Paris – 25 May 1909, at sea, near Buenos Aires) was a French painter, decorator and illustrator. His father...
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    related to Édouard Dubufe at Wikimedia Commons Works by or about Édouard Dubufe at the Internet Archive ArtNet: More works by Dubufe "Dubufe, Edouard" . New...
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  • Kraepelin, German psychiatrist and academic (d. 1926) 1861 – Charles Édouard Guillaume, Swiss-French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d...
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  • Rüegg, alpine skier 4 October – Kurt Wüthrich, chemist 13 May – Charles Édouard Guillaume, physicist (born 1861) 15 June – Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, German...
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