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Charles Édouard Guillaume

1861 - 1938

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Charles Édouard Guillaume (15 February 1861, in Fleurier, Switzerland – 13 May 1938, in Sèvres, France) was a Swiss physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1920 in recognition of the service he had rendered to precision measurements in physics by his discovery of anomalies in nickel steel alloys. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Charles Édouard Guillaume has received more than 125,670 page views. His biography is available in 73 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 69 in 2019). Charles Édouard Guillaume is the 92nd most popular physicist (down from 73rd in 2019), the 28th most popular biography from Switzerland 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 92 out of 717. Before him are Eugene Wigner, John Bardeen, Arnold Sommerfeld, Peter Higgs, Paul Langevin, and Arthur Compton. After him are Dennis Gabor, James Franck, Manne Siegbahn, William Henry Bragg, Edward Teller, and Walther Bothe.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1861, Charles Édouard Guillaume ranks 11. Before him are Georges Méliès, Lou Andreas-Salomé, Ferdinand I of Bulgaria, James Naismith, Victor Horta, and Erich von Falkenhayn. After him are Alfred North Whitehead, Robert Bosch, Halford Mackinder, Georgy Lvov, Frederick Gowland Hopkins, and Aristide Maillol. Among people deceased in 1938, Charles Édouard Guillaume ranks 12. Before him are Konstantin Stanislavski, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Béla Kun, Nikolai Bukharin, Karl Kautsky, and Faustina Kowalska. After him are Robert Johnson, Alexei Rykov, Gabriele D'Annunzio, Carl von Ossietzky, Genrikh Yagoda, and Marie of Romania.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Charles Édouard Guillaume ranks 28 out of 876. Before him are Carl Spitteler (1845), Bruno Ganz (1941), Élie Ducommun (1833), Arnold Böcklin (1827), Jacob Burckhardt (1818), and Conrad Gessner (1516). After him are Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (1926), Erich von Däniken (1935), Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921), Jacques Necker (1732), Jacob Bernoulli (1654), and Adelaide of Italy (931).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Switzerland

Among physicists born in Switzerland, Charles Édouard Guillaume ranks 1. After him are Auguste Piccard (1884), Heinrich Rohrer (1933), Felix Bloch (1905), Johann Jakob Balmer (1825), K. Alex Müller (1927), Ami Argand (1750), Walter H. Schottky (1886), Walther Ritz (1878), Raoul Pictet (1846), Jakob II Bernoulli (1759), and Alfred Kleiner (1849).

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