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Charles Édouard Guillaume

1861 - 1938

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Charles Édouard Guillaume (French: [ʃaʁl edwaʁ gijom]; 15 February 1861 – 13 June 1938) 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". In 1919, he gave the fifth Guthrie Lecture at the Institute of Physics in London with the title "The Anomaly of the Nickel-Steels". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Charles Édouard Guillaume is the 47th most popular physicist (up from 57th in 2019), the 14th most popular biography from Switzerland (up from 18th in 2019) and the most popular Swiss Physicist.

Charles Édouard Guillaume was a French physicist who is most famous for his discovery of the electromagnetic waves that are used in radio communications.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Charles Édouard Guillaume ranks 47 out of 851. Before him are Charles H. Townes, Pieter Zeeman, William Gilbert, Luigi Galvani, Nevill Francis Mott, and David J. Thouless. After him are Philip Warren Anderson, Gustav Kirchhoff, Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, Brian Josephson, Gabriel Lippmann, and K. Alex Müller.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1861, Charles Édouard Guillaume ranks 5. Before him are Rabindranath Tagore, Mehmed VI, Fridtjof Nansen, and Rudolf Steiner. After him are Lou Andreas-Salomé, Georges Méliès, Edith Roosevelt, Ferdinand I of Bulgaria, Victor Horta, Georgy Lvov, and Erich von Falkenhayn. Among people deceased in 1938, Charles Édouard Guillaume ranks 5. Before him are Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Muhammad Iqbal, Edmund Husserl, and Maud of Wales. After him are Karel Čapek, Konstantin Stanislavski, Marie of Romania, Georges Méliès, Mary Mallon, Faustina Kowalska, and Nikolai Bukharin.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Charles Édouard Guillaume ranks 14 out of 1,015. Before him are Ferdinand de Saussure (1857), Jacob Bernoulli (1654), Huldrych Zwingli (1484), Sepp Blatter (1936), Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi (1746), and Paul Klee (1879). After him are Charles Albert Gobat (1843), Jean-Paul Marat (1743), K. Alex Müller (1927), Élie Ducommun (1833), Johann Bernoulli (1667), and Francesco Borromini (1599).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Switzerland

Among physicists born in Switzerland, Charles Édouard Guillaume ranks 1. After him are K. Alex Müller (1927), Heinrich Rohrer (1933), Felix Bloch (1905), Johann Jakob Balmer (1825), Auguste Piccard (1884), Ami Argand (1750), Walter H. Schottky (1886), Raoul Pictet (1846), Walther Ritz (1878), Jakob II Bernoulli (1759), and Georges-Louis Le Sage (1724).

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