William Francis Giauque:
William Francis Giauque was a Canadian-American chemist and Nobel laureate.
Birth:
May 12, 1895 in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada
Death:
March 28, 1982 in Berkeley, California
Claim to Fame:
Giauque was a Canadian-American chemist who was awarded the 1949 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his research on matter at near absolute zero temperatures. He developed a magnetic refrigeration device that cools samples to under 1 Kelvin.
