Claude, Georges, 1870-1960.
Georges Claude papers.
Private papers of the inventor. Reprints and manuscripts of oral communications and papers. Laboratory notebooks, patents, and commercial brochures. Topics include electricity, cryogenics, liquid air, rare gases (argon, neon, helium, and krypton), neon lighting, welding, and terrestrial and marine thermal energy. Incoming and outgoing correspondence (correspondents include Kammerlingh-Onnes, Ramsay, Debierne, Pierre and Marie Curie, Arsn̈e d'Arsonval, etc.). Among the several institutions mentioned are the Ecole de Physique et Chimie de la Ville de Paris, the International Institute of Refrigeration, Sociť ̌des ingňieurs civils, the Acadm̌ie des sciences, etc. His political career is also documented.
George Claude, inventor, physicist and businessman, founder of the Air Liquide Company. A staunch nationalist during the 1930s, member of the Action Franȧise, candidate for legislative elections, he notoriously endorsed Hitler's Germany during and after the invasion of France, and was condemned to life imprisonment in 1945.
Curie, Marie, 1867-1934.
Curie, Pierre, 1859-1906.
Kamerlingh Onnes, Heike, 1853-1926.
Ramsay, William, 1852-1916.
Acadm̌ie des sciences (France).
Ecole de physique et de chimie (France)
Electricity.
Low temperature engineering
Liquid air.
Gases.
Argon.
Neon.
Helium.
Krypton.
Neon lighting.
Welding.
Terrestrial heat flow.
Politics -- France.
Laboratory notes. aat aat
Brochures. aat
Patents lcgft
D'Arsonval, Arne.
Debierne, Andr ̌Louis.
International Institution of Refrigeration.
Societ ̌des ingnieurs civil.
AIP-ICOS
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