Giauque

[jee-ohk]

noun

1. William Francis, 1895–1982, U.S. chemist: Nobel Prize 1949.

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Nicolas Giauque's after a faulty boiler at the family's rented home in London leaked out lethal levels of toxic fumes.

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The world record low is held not by Dr. Giauque but by the Dutch scientists in Leyden, who have used his system and reached the astounding figure of .0044�.

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In the Physical Review last week, Dr. Giauque published a report on the viscosity of liquid helium in the absolute zero region.

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Three major centres of world research in cryogenics are: the University of Leyden in Holland, Oxford University in England, the University of California in the U. S. In California the work is directed by handsome, dapper William Francis Giauque, who first devised the method of cooling magnetic salts closer to absolute zero than had previously been done.

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Another reason is that Giauque does not regard the pursuit of absolute zero as a competitive stunt, but as a means of studying entropy, and for this purpose the region within a degree of the zero is cold enough.

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