Charles Edouard Guillaume (1861-1938)

Awarded the Prize “in recognition of the service he has rendered to precision measurements in Physics by his discovery of anomalies in nickel steel alloys.”

Swiss metrologist physicist. Guillaume was born in Fleurier, Switzerl on February 15, 1861. In 1878 he entered the Zurich Federal Institute of Technology, gaining his doctorate in 1882. In 1883 Guillaume became an assistant at the International Bureau of Weights Measures at Sevres was appointed the director in 1915. Guillaume died on May 13, 1938 in France.