Charles-Édouard Guillaume
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Charles-Édouard Guillaume ({{#invoke:IPA|main}}; 15 February 1861 – 13 June 1938)<ref name="nobelprize.org"/> 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".<ref name="nobelprize.org"/> In 1919, he gave the fifth Guthrie Lecture at the Institute of Physics in London with the title "The Anomaly of the Nickel-Steels".<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
Personal life
Charles-Edouard Guillaume was born in Fleurier, Switzerland, on 15 February 1861.<ref name="nobelprize.org">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Guillaume received his early education in Neuchâtel, and obtained a doctoral degree in Physics at ETH Zurich in 1883.<ref name="nobelprize.org"/><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Guillaume was married in 1888 to A. M. Taufflieb, with whom he had three children.<ref name="nobelprize.org"/>
He died on 13 June 1938 in Sèvres, aged 77.He was a Christian. <ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
Scientific career
Guillaume was head of the International Bureau of Weights and Measures.<ref name="Gould">Gould, p.201.</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He also worked with Kristian Birkeland, serving at the Observatoire de Paris – Section de Meudon. He conducted several experiments with thermostatic measurements at the observatory.
Nickel–steel alloy
Guillaume is known for his discovery of nickel–steel alloys he named invar,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> elinvar and Template:Ill, also known as red platinum. Invar has a near-zero coefficient of thermal expansion, making it useful in constructing precision instruments whose dimensions need to remain constant in spite of varying temperature. Elinvar has a near-zero thermal coefficient of the modulus of elasticity, making it useful in constructing instruments with springs that need to be unaffected by varying temperature, such as the marine chronometer. Elinvar is also non-magnetic, which is a secondary useful property for antimagnetic watches.
Space radiation
Guillaume is also known for the earliest estimation of the "radiation of the stars” in his 1896 article {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} ("The Temperature of Space"). This publication made him a pioneer in plasma cosmology, the study of conditions far from any particular star.<ref>Pioneers in the development of the plasma cosmology.</ref> The concept was later known as the Cosmic microwave background.<ref name=lanaturecited>Guillaume, C.-É., 1896, La Nature 24, series 2, p. 234, cited in "History of the 2.7 K Temperature Prior to Penzias and Wilson".</ref> He was one of the first people in history to estimate the temperature of space, as 5–6 K.<ref name=lanaturecited />
Horology
As the son of a Swiss horologist, Guillaume took an interest in marine chronometers. For use as the compensation balance he developed a slight variation of the invar alloy which had a negative quadratic coefficient of expansion. The purpose of doing this was to eliminate the "middle-temperature" error of the balance wheel.<ref name="Gould" /> The Guillaume balance (a type of balance wheel) in horology is named after him.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
Publications
- 1886: Études thermométriques (Studies on Thermometry)
- 1889: Traité de thermométrie de Precision (Treatise on Thermometry) via Internet Archive
- 1894: Unités et Étalons (Units and Standards)
- 1896: Les rayons X et la Photographie a traves les corps opaques (X-Rays) via Internet Archive
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- 1898: Recherches sur le nickel et ses alliages (Investigations on Nickel and its Alloys)
- 1899: La vie de la matière (The Life of Matter)
- 1902: La Convention du Mètre et le Bureau international des Poids et Mesures (Metrical Convention and the International Bureau of Weights and Measures)
- 1904: Les applications des aciers au nickel (Applications of Nickel-Steels) via Internet Archive
- 1907: Des états de la matière (States of Matter)
- 1909: Initiation à la Mécanique (Introduction to Mechanics) Hathi Trust record
- 1913: [1907] Les récents progrès du système métrique (Recent progress in the Metric System)
See also
- Carlos Ibáñez e Ibáñez de Ibero – 1st president of the International Committee for Weights and Measures
Notes
References
- Nobel Lectures, Physics 1901–1921, "Charles-Edouard Guillaume – Biography". Elsevier Publishing Company, Amsterdam.
- Rupert Thomas Gould (1960) The Marine Chronometer: its history and development, Holland Press.
- C. E. Guillaume in Nature 1934
Further reading
- Robert W. Cahn (2005) "An Unusual Nobel Prize", Notes and Records 59(2).
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