Lord Kelvin

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Lord Kelvin was a pioneering 19th-century physicist and engineer best known for his work on thermodynamics and the absolute temperature scale that bears his name.

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instanceOf Baron in the Peerage of the United Kingdom ⓘ
Fellow of the Royal Society ⓘ
President of the Royal Society ⓘ
engineer ⓘ
human ⓘ
mathematician ⓘ
member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh ⓘ
peer of the United Kingdom ⓘ
physicist ⓘ
university teacher ⓘ
academicDegree Master of Arts ⓘ
awardReceived Copley Medal ⓘ
Order of Merit ⓘ
Royal Medal ⓘ
birthName William Thomson ⓘ
linked to: Lord Kelvin
burialPlace Westminster Abbey ⓘ
causeOfDeath chill ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom ⓘ
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland ⓘ
dateOfBirth 1824-06-26 ⓘ
dateOfDeath 1907-12-17 ⓘ
educatedAt Peterhouse, Cambridge ⓘ
University of Cambridge ⓘ
University of Glasgow ⓘ
employer University of Glasgow ⓘ
ethnicGroup Scottish people ⓘ
familyName Thomson ⓘ
fieldOfWork electromagnetism ⓘ
engineering ⓘ
mathematical physics ⓘ
thermodynamics ⓘ
givenName William ⓘ
hasUnitNamedAfter degree Kelvin (historical name) ⓘ
kelvin ⓘ
influenced James Clerk Maxwell ⓘ
Ludwig Boltzmann ⓘ
influencedBy James Prescott Joule ⓘ
Sadi Carnot ⓘ
linked to: Carnot
knownFor Kelvin temperature scale ⓘ
linked to: kelvin

Kelvin–Planck statement of the second law of thermodynamics ⓘ
absolute zero concept in thermodynamics ⓘ
work on energy dissipation and the age of the Earth ⓘ
languageOfWorkOrName English ⓘ
memberOf Royal Society ⓘ
Royal Society of Edinburgh ⓘ
nativeLanguage English ⓘ
nobleTitle Baron Kelvin ⓘ
notableWork contributions to the second law of thermodynamics ⓘ
development of the absolute thermodynamic temperature scale ⓘ
formulation of the Kelvin scale ⓘ
work on the dynamical theory of heat ⓘ
work on the transatlantic telegraph cable ⓘ
placeOfBirth Belfast ⓘ
County Antrim ⓘ
Ireland ⓘ
placeOfDeath Ayrshire ⓘ
Largs ⓘ
Scotland ⓘ
positionHeld Professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Glasgow ⓘ
religion Presbyterianism ⓘ
residence Glasgow ⓘ

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Royal Medal → notableRecipient → Lord Kelvin ⓘ
Henry Cavendish → influenced → Lord Kelvin ⓘ
Copley Medal → notableRecipient → Lord Kelvin ⓘ
Oliver Heaviside → influencedBy → William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin ⓘ
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University of Glasgow → hasNotableAlumnus → William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin ⓘ
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Lord Kelvin → birthName → William Thomson ⓘ
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Athenaeum Club → notableMember → Lord Kelvin ⓘ
Thomson → hasNotableBearer → William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin ⓘ
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River Kelvin → givesNameTo → Lord Kelvin ⓘ
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Senior Wrangler (Cambridge Mathematical Tripos) → hasNotableLaureate → William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin ⓘ
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Kelvin Medal → namedAfter → Lord Kelvin ⓘ
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Baron Kelvin → namedAfter → Lord Kelvin ⓘ
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Baron Kelvin → peerageCreationFor → Scottish physicist William Thomson ⓘ
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Baron Kelvin → titleHolderHonorific → Lord Kelvin ⓘ
Baron Kelvin → titleHolderFullName → William Thomson ⓘ
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Kelvin–Planck statement of the second law of thermodynamics → namedAfter → William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin ⓘ
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James Thomson (engineer) → sibling → William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin ⓘ
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James Thomson (engineer) → relative → Lord Kelvin ⓘ
George Green → hasInfluenced → William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin ⓘ
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Kelvin Building → namedAfter → William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin ⓘ
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Kelvin Building → namedAfter → Lord Kelvin ⓘ
Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot → influenced → William Thomson ⓘ
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Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot → influenced → Lord Kelvin ⓘ
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Reflections on the Motive Power of Fire → influenced → William Thomson ⓘ
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James Croll → influencedBy → William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) ⓘ
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Peter Guthrie Tait → coAuthor → William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin ⓘ
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Peter Guthrie Tait → collaboratedWith → William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin ⓘ
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Thermodynamics → historicalDevelopmentBy → William Thomson ⓘ
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Belfast Royal Academy → hasAlumni → Lord Kelvin (William Thomson) (at preparatory level, often associated) ⓘ
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Kelvin–Helmholtz instability → namedAfter → William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin ⓘ
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second law of thermodynamics → historicallyDevelopedBy → William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin ⓘ
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Albert Medal → hasRecipient → Lord Kelvin ⓘ
John Hopkinson → influencedBy → William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) ⓘ
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Peterhouse alumni → hasNotableMember → Lord Kelvin ⓘ