biography
| name: |
Giauque, William (Francis)
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pronunciation:
[jeeohk]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1895–1982)
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| biography:
| Chemist, born in Niagara Falls, Ontario, SE Canada. He studied at the University of California, Berkeley, becoming professor there in 1934. In 1929 he took part in the discovery of the existence of isotopes of oxygen. Most of his work was devoted to studying matter at temperatures very close to absolute zero (-273·15°C), and he developed a method for the production of extremely low temperatures. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1949. |
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