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(b. Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, 12 May 1895; d. Berkeley, California, 28 March 1982)

physical chemistry, chemical physics.

Giauque received the 1949 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his research on chemical thermodynamics, particularly his pioneering and exhaustive investigations on entropy and low-temperature chemistry.

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He contributed greatly to establishing the third law of thermodynamics as a fundamental scientific law, invented the adiabatic demagnetization cooling pro cess, and demonstrated the natural occurrence of oxygen”s O¹⁷ and O¹⁸ isotopes and molecular hy drogen”s ortho and para forms.

Giauque’s experimental researches were meticulous, most of them definitive, with improvements on his results coming only from refinements in technique. In his long and productive career, all of which he spent at the University of California (Berkeley), Giauque published 183 papers and trained 51 graduate students.

Giauque was the eldest of two sons and