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Charles Édouard Guillaume

Charles Édouard GuillaumeBorn: 15-Feb-1861
Birthplace: Fleurier, Switzerland
Died: 13-Jun-1938
Location of death: Sèvres, France
Cause of death: unspecified

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Physicist

Nationality: France
Executive summary: Invented alloys Invar and Elinvar

Father: Édouard Guillaume
Wife: A.M. Taufflieb (m. 1888, three children)

    University: Zurich Polytechnic

    Nobel Prize for Physics 1920

Author of books:
Études thermométriques (1886)
Traité de thermométrie (1889)
Unités et Étalons (1894)
Les rayons X (1896)
Recherches sur le nickel et ses alliages (1898)
La vie de la matière (1899)
La Convention du Mètre et le Bureau international des Poids et Mesures (1902)
Les applications des aciers au nickel (1904)
Des états de la matière (1907)
Les récent progrès du système métrique (1907)



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