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  1. Temperatures Below 1 Absolute by William Francis Giauque, 1936
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  3. William Francis Giauque, 1895-1982: A biographical memoir (Biographical memoirs) by Kenneth S Pitzer, 1996

1. William F. Giauque - Biography
They have two sons, william francis Ashley G. and Robert David Ashley G. FromNobel Lectures, Chemistry 19421962. william francis giauque died in 1982.
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William Francis Giauque was born in Niagara Falls, Canada, of U.S. parentage, on May 12, 1895, the first of three children of William Tecumseh Sherman Giauque and Isabella Jane Duncan.
After two years employment he entered the College of Chemistry of the University of California, where he received the B.S. degree with highest honors in 1920, was a University Fellow for the year 1920-1921 and James M. Goewey Fellow 1921-1922. He received the Ph.D. degree in chemistry with a minor in physics in 1922.
Although his undergraduate work at the university was selected with the idea of an engineering career, he soon acquired a liking for fundamental research. The emphasis on scientific investigation by the group of faculty and students associated with Professor Gilbert N. Lewis was the major influence.
He was appointed Instructor of Chemistry in 1922 and after passing through the intermediate grades of professorship he became Professor of Chemistry in 1934.
His interest in the third law of thermodynamics as a field of research was aroused by the experimental work for his Ph.D. research under Professor G.E. Gibson. This work, which was concerned with the relative entropies of glycerine crystals and glass, had its origin in discussions of Professors Lewis and Gibson.

2. Chemistry 1949
University of California Berkeley, CA, USA. b.1895 d.1982. The nobel Prize in Chemistry1949 Presentation Speech william francis giauque Biography nobel Lecture.
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3. William Francis Giauque Winner Of The 1949 Nobel Prize In Chemistry
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ALPHABETICAL LISTING OF nobel PRIZE LAUREATES IN CHEMISTRY. Name, Year Awarded.Alder, Kurt, 1950. Fukui, Kenichi, 1981. giauque, william francis, 1949.
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5. Giauque, William Francis
giauque, william francis. Falls, Ont., Can.d. March 28, 1982, Berkeley, Calif.,US), Canadianborn American physical chemist and winner of the nobel Prize for
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Giauque, William Francis
(b. May 12, 1895, Niagara Falls, Ont., Can.d. March 28, 1982, Berkeley, Calif., U.S.), Canadian-born American physical chemist and winner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1949 for his studies of the properties of matter at temperatures close to absolute zero. After earning his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1922, Giauque joined the chemistry faculty there and held posts at the school until 1981. In 1927 he proposed a new method of achieving extremely low temperatures using a process called adiabatic demagnetization . By 1933 he had a working apparatus that obtained a temperature within one-tenth of a degree of absolute zero (- 273.15 C). His research confirmed the third law of thermodynamics, which states that the entropy of ordered solids reaches zero at the absolute zero of temperature. In the course of his low-temperature studies of oxygen, Giauque discovered with Herrick L. Johnston the oxygen isotopes of mass 17 and 18.

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7. Giauque, William Francis. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
giauque, william francis. He was awarded the 1949 nobel Prize in Chemistry for hisstudies of the properties of substances at temperatures approaching absolute
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giauque, william francis. Glauber, Johann Rudolf. Liebig, Justus, Baron von.Lipscomb, william Nunn. Niepce, Joseph Nicéphore. nobel, Alfred Bernhard.
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9. Giauque, William Francis (1895-1982), Chimiste Américain, Lauréat Du Prix Nobe
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10. Les Prix Nobel De Chimie
Translate this page Les Prix nobel de Chimie. Scientifiques. Nationalités. 1901. Jacobus HenricusVan't Hoff. Pays-Bas. 1902. Suède. 1949. william francis giauque. Etats-Unis.1950.
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11. Giauque, William Francis
giauque, william francis , 1895–1982, American chemist, b. Niagara Falls, Ont.,Canada, grad He was awarded the 1949 nobel Prize in Chemistry for his studies
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12. Prix Nobel De 1945 à 1949
Translate this page 3. Voir la notice sur Willstátter, prix nobel de chimie 1915. 4. Voir lanotice sur le prix nobel de chimie 1952. 1949. william francis giauque.
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P rix Nobel de 1945 à 1949 Artturi Ilmari Virtanen James Batcheller Sumner John Howard Northrop et Wendell Meredith Stanley Sir Robert Robinson Arne Wilhelm Kaurin Tiselius William Francis Giauque
1945. Artturi Ilmari Virtanen
Pour ses recherches et inventions en chimie agricole et de nutrition, et spécialement pour sa méthode de conservation des fourrages. (Helsinki, 1895 - Helsinki, 1973) Le premier prix Nobel finlandais est né à Helsinki le 15 janvier 1895. Après avoir étudié la chimie à l'Université de sa ville natale, il obtient en 1918 le grade de docteur, ayant préparé sous la direction du professeur O. Aschan une thèse sur les acides résineux dans laquelle il établit la constitution de l'acide abiétique de la colophane du pin. Jugeant sa formation insuffisante, il étudie les techniques et les méthodes chimico-physiques et biochimiques à l'occasion de voyages "post-doc" en Suisse, en Allemagne et en Suède. En 1921, il accepte le poste de chef de laboratoire de l'organisation centrale des laiteries coopératives finnoises, la Valio (1). Virtanen est alors nommé maître de conférences à l'Université d'Helsinki (1924-1939); il enseigne également au cours de cette période (1931-1938) à l'Ecole Technique Supérieure d'Helsinki. Pédagogue original, il fait participer les étudiants les plus avancés aux travaux de recherche de l'Institut dont il assure la dierection Il occupe ensuite, de 1939 à 1948, la chaire de biochimie à l'Université d'Helsinki. Tenant de la recherche fondamentale, Virtanen n'a jamais perdu de vue qu'elle devait pouvoir déboucher sur des applications techniques, lors même qu'elle semble s'en éloigner. Evoquant son entrée à la Valio, où son travail porte sur les problèmes pratiques posés par l'industrie laitière (détermination des taux de matière grasse, dosage de l'eau, mesure du pH), il écrit :

13. Tous Les Prix Nobel De Chimie
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14. Nobel Laureates In Chemistry By Alphabetical Order
Themes Science Chemistry About Chemistry Generalities nobel Laureatesin Chemistry by Alphabetical order. Name, giauque, william francis, 1949.
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Name Year Awarded Alder, Kurt Altman, Sidney Anfinsen, Christian B. Arrhenius, Svante August Aston, Francis William Baeyer, Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf Von Barton, Sir Derek H. R. Berg, Paul Bergius, Friedrich Bosch, Carl Boyer, Paul D. Brown, Herbert C. Buchner, Eduard Butenandt, Adolf Friedrich Johann Calvin, Melvin Cech, Thomas R. Corey, Elias James Cornforth, Sir John Warcup Cram, Donald J. Crutzen, Paul Curie, Marie Curl, Robert F., Jr. Debye, Petrus Josephus Wilhelmus De Hevesy, George Deisenhofer, Johann Diels, Otto Paul Hermann Eigen, Manfred Ernst, Richard R. Euler-chelpin, Hans Karl August Simon Von Fischer, Ernst Otto Fischer, Hans Fischer, Hermann Emil Flory, Paul J. Fukui, Kenichi Giauque, William Francis Gilbert, Walter Grignard, Victor Haber, Fritz Hahn, Otto Harden, Sir Arthur Hassel, Odd Hauptman, Herbert A. Haworth, Sir Walter Norman Heeger, Alan J. Herschbach, Dudley R. Herzberg, Gerhard Heyrovsky, Jaroslav Hinshelwood, Sir Cyril Norman Hodgkin, Dorothy Crowfoot Hoff, Jacobus Henricus Van't

15. Nat'l Academies Press, Biographical Memoirs (1996), WILLIAM FRANCIS GIAUQUE
by the nobel Committee for Chemistry in the aware His father was an American citizen,en c! thus william francis giauque was able to aclopt American citizenship
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16. William Francis Giauque, May 12, 1895—March 28, 1982 | By Kenneth S. Pitzer And
william francis giauque is remembered particularly for his discovery of adiabaticdemagnetization as studies of entropy were cited by the nobel Committee for
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WILLIAM FRANCIS GIAUQUE is remembered particularly for his discovery of adiabatic demagnetization as a means to reach very low temperatures as well as for his exhaustive and meticulous thermodynamic studies, over a lifetime of research, which utilized the third law of thermodynamics while also developing a large body of evidence for its validity. His "achievements in the field of chemical thermodynamics and especially his work on the behavior of matter at very low temperatures and his closely allied studies of entropy" were cited by the Nobel Committee for Chemistry in the award of the prize in 1949. Giauque was born May 12, 1895, in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, the eldest of two sons and one daughter of William Tecumseh Giauque and Isabella Jane (Duncan) Giauque. His father was an American citizen, and thus William Francis Giauque was able to adopt American citizenship although born in Canada. Neither of Giauque's parents completed a formal high school education, but both were convinced of the value of education. His father was a skilled carpenter and cabinetmaker and was adept at mechanical procedures in general. He was employed variously as a weighmaster and station agent for the Michigan Central Railroad. Giauque's mother was skilled in sewing and tailoring and worked in those occupations on occasion. His father died when Giauque was thirteen, leaving the family with meager financial resources that had to be supplemented from part-time and summer jobs by all members. Among these jobs was part-time seamstress work by the mother for the family of Dr. John Woods Beckman, assigned to Niagara Falls by his employer, American Cyanamid Company. This connection had a pivotal role in William Francis Giauque's later education and career.

17. William Francis Giauque
Translate this page william francis giauque. 1895-1982. Physico-chimiste américain (Niagara Falls,Canada, 12 mai 1895 - Berkeley, Californie, 28 mars 1982) nobel de chimie 1949.
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Histoire de la chimie William Francis Giauque Physico-chimiste américain (Niagara Falls, Canada, 12 mai 1895 - Berkeley, Californie, 28 mars 1982)
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Ses travaux portent sur les calculs entropiques aux bases températures. Il montre théoriquement en 1929 (il fera l'expérience en 1933) que la désaimantation adiabatique d'un sel paramagnétique(le sulfate de gadolinium) entraîne une baisse de température due à l'accroissement d'entropie du système. Il parviendra ainsi à atteindre de très basses températures : 4 mK. C'est sous l'approche de la thermodynamique statistique et de la mécanique quantique que Giauque montrera en 1929 que l'oxygène est composé de trois isotopes. C'est cette découverte qui le poussera à remplacer, n 1961, la référence des masses molaires de l'oxygène 16 au carbone 12. , tous droits réservés pour tous pays.

18. Search Results For Francis William Edmonds - Encyclopædia Britannica - The Onli
william francis giauque The nobel Foundation Brief biography of thisCanadaborn nobel Prize winner in Chemistry for 1949. Includes
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19. Nobel Prize Winning Chemists
He was awarded the nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1949 for his contributions inthe field of chemical thermodynamics william francis giauque died in 1982.
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Nobel Prize Winning Chemists William Francis Giauque The Best Prize In Chemistry 1949 William Francis Giauque was born in Niagara Falls, Canada, of U.S. parentage, on May 12, 1895, the first of three children of William Tecumseh Sherman Giauque and Isabella Jane Duncan. He attended public grammar schools principally in Michigan. After graduation he sought employment in various power plants at Niagara Falls for financial reasons and because he had planned for many years to become an electrical engineer and wanted preliminary experience. He was unable to obtain this type of work. He entered the Hooker Electro-Chemical Company. The well-organized operations in this chemical plant, together with problems which he saw in course of the solution, captured his interest and caused him to decide to become a chemical engineer. His interest in the third law of thermodynamics as a field of research was aroused by the experimental work for his Ph. D. research under Professor G. E. Gibson. This work, which was concerned with the relative entropies of glycerine crystals and glass, had its origin in discussions of Professors Lewis and Gibson. He has received the Chandler Medal and the honorary degree of Sc. D. from Columbia University, an honorary LL. D. from the University of California, and the Elliot Cresson Medal from the Franklin Institute. In 1951 he received the Willard Gibbs Medal and in 1956 the Gilbert Newton Lewis Medal. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1949 "for his contributions in the field of chemical thermodynamics, particularly concerning the behavior of substances at extremely low temperatures.

20. Nobel
nobelWinning Chemists. Kurt Alder. Sidney Altman. Christian B. Anfinsen. PaulJ. Flory. Kenichi Fukui. william francis giauque. Walter Gilbert. Victor Grignard.
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