William Giauque

William Giauque was an American-Canadian chemist and engineer born in Niagara Falls in 1895. He worked at the University of California, Berkeley, where he was also educated. His professional focus was physical chemistry. He mentored doctoral student Theodore H. Geballe. Giauque died in Berkeley in 1982.

He received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, the Elliott Cresson Medal, and the Willard Gibbs Award. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Physics and the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Giauque was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the American Physical Society, and the National Academy of Sciences. He spoke English.