Paul-Antoine Giguère
Paul-Antoine Giguère | |
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Born | Quebec City, Quebec | January 13, 1910
Died | December 25, 1987 | (aged 77)
Nationality | Canadian |
Occupation(s) | Chemist and academic |
Awards | Léo-Pariseau Prize (1945) Guggenheim Fellowship(1946) Chemical Institute of Canada Medal(1965) Companion of the Order of Canada (1970) |
Paul-Antoine Giguère, CC (January 13, 1910 – December 25, 1987)[1] was a Canadian academic and chemist.
Born in Quebec City, he received a Bachelor of Science degree from Université Laval in 1934, and a doctorate from McGill University in 1937 under the direction of Otto Maass.[1][2] He started working in the laboratory of CIL in Beloeil, Quebec and then went to work at the California Institute of Technology with Linus Pauling.
In 1941, he returned to Quebec and became a lecturer at Université Laval.[2] He was appointed a professor in 1947 and was head of the Department of Chemistry from 1957 to 1968.[1]
His research was in
In 1966 he proposed a novel
In 1970, he was made a Companion of the Order of Canada for "his research work in physical chemistry".[10] In 1970, he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Science degree from the Université de Sherbrooke.[1]
References
- "Création du Fonds de bourses Paul-Antoine-Giguère" (in French). Retrieved January 6, 2006.
- ^ a b c d e "Paul-Antoine Giguère Docteur ès sciences". Université de Sherbrooke (in French). Retrieved December 10, 2017.
- ^ a b c d e In memoriam Professor Paul A. Giguère Journal of Solution Chemistry 17, 1003 (1988)
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- doi:10.1139/v57-160.
- ^ Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids, oct 1959
- PMID 23808683.
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- ^ "Giguère's Periodic Table". The INTERNET Database of Periodic Tables. 1965. Retrieved January 25, 2024.
- ^ Order of Canada citation
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