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William Giauque

1895 - 1982

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William Francis Giauque (; May 12, 1895 – March 28, 1982) was a Canadian-born American chemist and Nobel laureate. He was recognized in 1949, for his studies in the properties of matter, at temperatures close to absolute zero. He spent virtually all of his educational and professional career at the University of California, Berkeley. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. William Giauque is the 72nd most popular chemist (up from 101st in 2019), the 12th most popular biography from Canada (up from 24th in 2019) and the most popular Canadian Chemist.

William Giauque was a Canadian chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1949 for his work in the liquefaction of hydrogen.

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Among chemists, William Giauque ranks 72 out of 602. Before him are Wendell Meredith Stanley, Henry Hallett Dale, Gerty Cori, Vladimir Prelog, Gertrude B. Elion, and Dorothy Hodgkin. After him are Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Karl Ziegler, Hermann Staudinger, Tu Youyou, Paul Sabatier, and Albert Hofmann.

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Among people born in 1895, William Giauque ranks 18. Before him are Wolfram Freiherr von Richthofen, Jiddu Krishnamurti, Nikolai Yezhov, Mikhail Bakhtin, Richard Sorge, and Wilm Hosenfeld. After him are Max Horkheimer, Paul Éluard, Paul Hindemith, Semyon Timoshenko, Ragnar Frisch, and Dolores Ibárruri. Among people deceased in 1982, William Giauque ranks 16. Before him are Anna Freud, Roman Jakobson, Arthur Rubinstein, Hans-Ulrich Rudel, Khalid of Saudi Arabia, and Philip K. Dick. After him are Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Vasily Chuikov, Karl von Frisch, Erving Goffman, Stanford Moore, and Louis Aragon.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, William Giauque ranks 12 out of 1,622. Before him are Albert Bandura (1925), Mary Simon (1947), Celine Dion (1968), Christopher Plummer (1929), Jordan Peterson (1962), and James Cameron (1954). After him are Frank Gehry (1929), Jim Carrey (1962), Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874), Michael J. Fox (1961), Erving Goffman (1922), and Jack L. Warner (1892).

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Among CHEMISTS In Canada

Among chemists born in Canada, William Giauque ranks 1. After him are Sidney Altman (1939), Henry Taube (1915), Rudolph A. Marcus (1923), Maud Menten (1879), and Martin Kamen (1913).

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