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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born in Canada in 1895, William Francis Giauque moved through his entire academic life at Berkeley, turning thermodynamics into an art of extremes. His work probed matter at temperatures approaching absolute zero, the point where molecular motion almost stops and strange quantum behaviors emerge. The precision required was unforgiving; the insights reshaped physical chemistry. In 1949, the Nobel committee honored him for those studies. He remained at Berkeley until his death in 1982, a scientist who spent decades interrogating the universe's coldest margins.