William Thomson, Lord Kelvin
1824-1907
British Physicist
William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, conducted important work in the areas of thermodynamics and electrical theory. Strongly influenced by the more ma...
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Thomson, Lord Kelvin, William (1824-1907)
Scottish physicist
William Thomson, known to history as Lord Kelvin, was granted the first scientific peerage by Queen Victoria in 1892 for his unique consult...
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Thomson, William (Lord Kelvin) (1824–1907)
In the 1850s the Glasgow professor of natural philosophy (physics), William Thomson, and his colleague in engineering science, Macquorn Rankine, rev...
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The Irish physicist William Thomson, Baron Kelvin of Largs (1824-1907), was the originator of the absolute scale of temperature and was one of the founders of thermodynamics.William Thomson was born o...
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William Thomson was among the most prodigious minds in British history. He was responsible for landmark accomplishments in the fields of thermodynamics, geology, and electrophysics, as well as for the...
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William Thomson Kelvin was born on June 26, 1824, in northern Ireland. He died on December 17, 1907, in Scotland. He was also known as Sir William Thomson, Baron William Thomson Kelvin of Largs, and L...
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William (Lord Kelvin) Thomson is recognized as the premier scientific mind of the nineteenth century, and perhaps the greatest thinker since Isaac Newton (1642-1727). He originated new schools of thou...
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William Thomson, known to history as Lord Kelvin, was granted the first scientific peerage by Queen Victoria in 1892 for his unique consulting work that made possible the installation of the transatla...
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