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William Francis Giauque (Niagara Falls, 12 maggio 1895 – Berkeley, 28 marzo 1982) è stato un chimico statunitense, vincitore del premio Nobel per la chimica nel 1949 per il suo contributo nel campo della termodinamica chimica, specificamente sullo studio del comportamento delle sostanze a basse temperature.
William Francis Giauque (/ dʒ i ˈ oʊ k /; May 12, 1895 – March 28, 1982) was a Canadian-born American chemist and Nobel laureate recognized in 1949 for his studies in the properties of matter at temperatures close to absolute zero.
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1949 was awarded to William Francis Giauque "for his contributions in the field of chemical thermodynamics, particularly concerning the behaviour of substances at extremely low temperatures"
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.
9 mag 2024 · William Francis Giauque (born May 12, 1895, Niagara Falls, Ont., Can.—died March 28, 1982, Berkeley, Calif., U.S.) was a 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.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Chimico fisico americano (Niagara Falls 1895 - Oakland 1982), allievo di G. E. Gibson; prof. (dal 1934) all'univ. di California. Nel 1929 scoprì gli isotopi dell'ossigeno.
1 gen 2020 · William Francis Giauque. January 1, 2020. College of Chemistry News. By D. N. Lyon, K. S. Pitzer, and D. A. Shirley. The death of William Francis Giauque, 1949 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, on March 28, 1982, ended the career of one of Berkeley's most illustrious scientists.
