born: May 12, 1895 Niagara Falls, Canada
died: March 28, 1982 Berkeley, California
Canadian-born American physical chemist and winner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1949 for his research of the properties of matter at temperatures as regards to absolute zero.His analysis proven the third law of thermodynamics, which states that the entropy of ordered solids reaches zero on the absolute zero of temperature. At some point 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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