Kelvin, Baron

Kelvin, Baron (William Thomson 1824-1907) British physicist, born in Belfast, who became professor of natural philosophy at Glasgow University in 1846. He carried out important experimental work on electro-... 

Lord Kelvin (Baron William Thomson Kelvin)... 

Fig. 25. - Approximate sketch of the growth of thermodynamic conception with the portraits of some famous pioneers, left column from above Joseph Black (1728-1799), Sadi Nicholas Carnot (1796-1832), Rudolf Jutius Clausius (1822-1888), Josiah Wiiland Gibbs (1839-1903), Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann (1844-1906), right Kelvin, Baron of Larges, Lord Williams Thompson (1824-1907), Jean Baptiste Fourier (1768-1830), James Clark Maxwell (1831-1879), Max Carl Planck (1858-1947), Lars Onsager (1903-1976), middle Sir Issak Newton (1642-1726), Clifford Ambrose Truesdell (1921 -) and Ilya Prigogine (1917-2003).

Kelvin, Baron of Larges (Lord Thompson Williams) (1824-1907) Scot, math., did important contribution in most branches of physical science, developed dynamic theory of heat, collaborated in investigating Joule-Thompson effect, propose absolute scale of tempieratures, invented various electric measuring devices and even developed improved mariner s compass still used today Kemp Richard Bernard (1941-) Brit, zoolog., biothermochemical studies and... 

Thompson, S. P. (1910). The Life of William Thomson, Baron Kelvin of Largs, 2 vols. London Macmillan and Co. 

William Thomson, 1st Baron of Kelvin also called Lord Kelvin recognized the existence of absolute temperature in the 1840s and proposed the temperature scale named after him. He failed in an attempt to reconcile caloric theory with Joule s discovery and caloric theory began to fall out of favor. 

James Prescott Joule (1818-1889) 14 William Thomson, first baron Kelvin (1824—1907). ... 

At the very apex of engineering science in the later nineteenth century stood Sir William Thomson, the most prominent of the Northern philosopher engineers, who became Baron Kelvin of Largs in the New Year s Honours List in 1892. Congratulations flooded in from all and sundry. Fellows of the Royal... 

Using many independent methods, Joule determined the numerical relation between heat and mechanical energy, or the mechanical equivalent of heat. Together with the physicist William Thomson (later Baron Kelvin), Joule found that the temperature of a gas falls when it expands without doing any work. This principle, which became known as the Joule-Thomson effect, underlies the operation of common refrigeration and air conditioning systems. 

William Thomson, 1 Baron Kelvin of Largs, 1824—1907, Scottish engineer, mathematician, and physicist. Professor at the University of Glasgow, England. His major contributions to thermal analysis concern the development of the second law of thermodynamics, the absolute temperature scale (measured in kelvins) and the dynamic theory of heat. 

Thomson, wniiam, 1st Baron Kelvin (1824-1907) Irish-born Scottish physicist and mathematician who proposed the absolute, or Kelvin, temperature scale (1848) and, at around the same time as Rudolf Clausius, established the second law of thermodynamics. He also invented a tide predictor and a harmonic analyzer. 

Advancement of Science. French scientist Louis Pasteur founds the science of stereochemistry (the study of the spatial arrangement of atoms in molecules and the effect of these arrangements on chemical properties). Scottish physician Sir James Simpson first uses chloroform as an anesthetic during experiments. English chemist Sir Edward Frankland and German chemist Adolph Kolbe discover ethane. Scottish physicist William Thomson, later Baron Kelvin, formulates the concept of absolute zero. 

Thomson was the chief technical consultant for the initial cable projects. As a result of their success and his involvement in the construction of a global cable network, he became extremely wealthy and was knighted in 1866. In 1892 he became Baron Kelvin of Largs. Kelvin is the name of the river that flows past Glasgow University, Largs is the town where he had his home, and kelvin is now the SI unit of thermodynamic temperature. 

FIGURE 1.4 William Thomson, later Baron Kelvin (1824-1907), a Scottish physicist. Thomson established the necessity of a minimum absolute temperature, and proposed a temperature scale based on that absolute zero. He also performed valuable work on the first transatlantic cable. Thomson was made a baron in 1892 and borrowed the name of the Kelvin River. Because he left no heirs, there is no current Baron Kelvin. 

Kelvin, Lord (1824-1907) A Belfast-born Scottish scientist William Thomson, later 1st Baron Kelvin of Largs, who was the son of a gifted teacher. Both he and his brother James matriculated to Glasgow University aged 10 and 12, respectively. William Thomson was... 

The effect is named after the British physicists James Prescott Joule and William Thomson, the U Baron Kelvin who discovered it in 1852 following earlier work by Joule on Joule expansion, where gas undergoes free expansion in a vacuum. 

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