Kelvin, Lord William

Karapetyanls, M.Kh., Chemical Thermodynamics, Mir Publishers. Moscow (1978). Kelvin, Lord William Thomson, Philosophical Magazine, October 1848, Vol, I, Cambridge University Press (1882), pp. 100-106. 

Kelvin, Lord. 1903. Letter to William Ramsay. August 22, 1903. William Ramsay Papers, University College London. [Quoted in Travers 1956, 252.]... 

It was only four years later that Lord Kelvin (nee William Thomson) came across the Essay. He kindly arranged for it to be reprinted in Crelle s Journal, and enthusiastically promoted Green s work in Britain and Europe. The enormous impact of Green s legacy on today s world of science has been clearly assessed by Freeman Dyson (1993). 

As discussed briefly in the next section, polymers have a unique response to mechanical loads and are properly treated as materials which in some instances behave as elastic solids and in some instances as viscous fluids. As such their properties (mechanical, electrical, optical, etc.) are time dependent and cannot be treated mathematically by the laws of either solids or fluids. The study of such materials began long before the macromolecu-lar nature of polymers was understood. Indeed, as will be evident in later chapters on viscoelasticity, James Clerk Maxwell (1831-79), a Scottish physicist and the first professor of experimental physics at Cambridge, developed one of the very first mathematical models to explain such peculiar behavior. Lord Kelvin (Sir William Thomson, (1824-1907)), another Scottish physicist, also developed a similar mathematical model. Undoubtedly, each had observed the creep and/or relaxation behavior of natural materials such as pitch, tar, bread dough, etc. and was intrigued to explain such behavior. Of course, these observations were only a minor portion of their overall contributions to the physics of matter. 

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).

Temperature intervals in kelvin and degrees Celsius are identical. Temperature units are named after Lord Kelvin, Sir William Thomson (1824-1907), University of Glasgow, Scotland, and Anders Celsius (1701-1744), University of Uppsala, Sweden. 

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... 

Carnot s research also made a major contribution to the second law of thermodynamics. Since the maximum efficiency of a Carnot engine is given by 1 -T( H, if the engine is to be 100 percent efficient (i.e., Cma = 1), Tc must equal zero. This led William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) to propose in 1848 that Tf must be the absolute zero of the temperature scale later known as the absolute scale or Kelvin scale. ... 

After Pierre s death, Marie was faced with having to present her work without the support and social skills of her husband. Furthermore, she spent numerous years defending her work from William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) who did not believe that radioactivity... 

It IS wrong to see Maxwell s achievement as one of merely translating Faraday s ideas into precise mathematical language. Though he once described Faraday as the nucleus of eveiything electric since 1830, two other men, William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) and Wilhelm Weber, were equally influential. 

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