Charles Edouard Guillaume's Birth Card: The 10 of Diamonds

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Charles-Édouard Guillaume (French: [ʃaʁl edwaʁ gijom]; 15 February 1861 – 13 June 1938) was a Swiss physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1920 "for the service he had rendered to precision measurements in physics by his discovery of anomalies in nickel steel alloys." In 1919, he gave the fifth Guthrie Lecture at the Institute of Physics in London with the title "The Anomaly of the Nickel-Steels." Charles-Edouard Guillaume was born on 15 February 1861 in Fleurier, Switzerland, into a family of French descent. The birth-card coordinate for February 15 is the 10 of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1920 Physics prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 1920 The Nobel Prize in Physics — in recognition of the service he has rendered to precision measurements in Physics by his discovery of anomalies in nickel steel alloys

The 10 of Diamonds coordinate

Charles Edouard Guillaume's birthday maps to the 10 of Diamonds (The Wealthy Master). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about a Nobel Prize and not a verdict on Charles Edouard Guillaume. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You build enough and keep it structured so it actually holds.

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Charles Edouard Guillaume in the public record

Guillaume received his early education in Neuchâtel, and obtained his Ph.D. in Physics from the Federal Polytechnic School in Zurich (now ETH Zurich) in 1883. In 1888, Guillaume married A. M. Taufflieb, with whom he had three children. Guillaume died on 13 June 1938 in Sèvres, Paris, at the age of 77. He was a Christian. Guillaume was head of the International Bureau of Weights and Measures. He also worked with Kristian Birkeland, serving at the Observatoire de Paris – Section de Meudon.

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Guillaume received his early education in Neuchâtel, and obtained his Ph.D. in Physics from the Federal Polytechnic School in Zurich (now ETH Zurich) in 1883.

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Also on the record

1. He conducted several experiments with thermostatic measurements at the observatory.
2. Guillaume is known for his discovery of nickel–steel alloys he named invar, elinvar and platinite, also known as red platinum.
3. Invar has a near-zero coefficient of thermal expansion, making it useful in constructing precision instruments whose dimensions need to remain constant in spite of varying temperature.
4. Elinvar has a near-zero thermal coefficient of the modulus of elasticity, making it useful in constructing instruments with springs that need to be unaffected by varying temperature, such as the marine chronometer.

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• Gerardus 't Hooft — 1999 Physics
• Giorgos Seferis — 1963 Literature
• Hans von Euler-Chelpin — 1929 Chemistry
• Herbert S. Gasser — 1944 Physiology or Medicine
• James A. Mirrlees — 1996 Economic Sciences
• John H. Northrop — 1946 Chemistry
• John H. Van Vleck — 1977 Physics
• 8 more laureates share this card.

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