Charles E. Guillaume

By: Krista Jacobsen

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Charles E. Guillaume

• Born on February 15, 1861

• Lived in Fleurier, Switzerland

• married Mlle Taufflieb in 1888.

• died on May 13, 1938

Education• early education in Neuchâtel

• year as officer in the Swiss artillery

• doctor's degree at Zurich Polytechnic

Working in the Bureau

• Assistant, International Bureau of Weights and Measures,1883

• Associate Director in 1902

• 1915-1936, was Director of the Bureau

• remained Honorary Director 1936-death

Studies• mechanics and ballistics

• thermometry

• Properties of iron

Discoveries

• discovery of invar

• discovery of elinvar

• detailed calibration of thermometers

Accomplishments • appointed Grand

Officer of the Legion of Honor

• Honorary Doctor of Science degrees from Geneva, Neuchatel, Paris

• President of the Société Française de Physique

Nobel Prize

• Recognized Inver's potential as soon as announced

• Important advancement of science and technology was obvious

• earned Guillaume that year's Nobel Prize in Physics

Books About his Work

• Studies on Thermometry, 1886,

• Treatise on Thermometry, 1889,

• Units and Standards, 1894

• X-Rays, 1896,

Books about his work cont.• investigations on Nickel

and its Alloys, 1898, • The Life of Matter, 1899,• Metrical Convention and

the International Bureau of Weights and Measures, 1902,

• Applications of Nickel-Steels, 1904,

Books about his work cont.

• States of Matter, 1907,

• Recent progress in the Metric System, 1907, 1913.

• Introduction to Mechanics

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