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Stars and solar physics
Lord Kelvin — who died years ago today — was a successful inventor, a wealthy businessman and perhaps the most important physicist of the 19th century. David Saxon explains how Kelvin played key roles in everything from thermodynamics and electric lighting to transatlantic telecommunication and the age of the Sun.
A physicist visiting the city of Glasgow for the first time is often heard to wonder, &#;Is everything here named after Lord Kelvin?&#; With places like Kelvinside, Kelvindale and Kelvingrove, it certainly feels like that, but it is really the other way around. The great physicist, who died &#;years ago on 17&#;December , took the title Baron Kelvin of Largs from the River Kelvin that curls around the foot of the University of Glasgow&#;s spectacular campus. Prior to his enoblement in as the first ever scientist peer, he was William (later Sir William) Thomson.
Born in Belfast in , Kelvin moved to Glasgow in when his
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Lord Kelvin facts for kids
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, OM, GCVO, PC, FRS, FRSE (26 June – 17 December ) was a British mathematician, mathematical physicist and engineer born in Belfast. He was the Professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Glasgow for 53 years, where he undertook significant research and mathematical analysis of electricity, the formulation of the first and second laws of thermodynamics, and contributed significantly to unifying physics, which was then in its infancy of development as an emerging academic discipline.
Absolute temperatures are stated in units of kelvin in his honour. The Joule–Thomson effect is also named in his honour. While the existence of a coldest possible temperature, known as absolute zero, was known prior to his work, Kelvin is known for determining its correct value as approximately − degrees Celsius or − degrees Fahrenheit.
Childhood
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin was born to [James Thomson (mathematician)|James T
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Lord Kelvin
British physicist, engineer and mathematician (–)
For other people named William Thomson, see William Thomson (disambiguation).
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin (26 June &#;&#; 17 December [7]), was a British mathematician, mathematical physicist and engineer.[8][9] Born in Belfast, he was the professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Glasgow for 53 years, where he undertook significant research and mathematical analysis of electricity, was instrumental in the formulation of the first and second laws of thermodynamics,[10][11] and contributed significantly to unifying physics, which was then in its infancy of development as an framträdande academic discipline. He received the Royal Society's Copley Medal in and served as its president from to In , he became the first forskare to be elevated to the House of Lords.[12]
Absolute temperatures are stated in units of kelvin in Lord Kelvin's honour