Kelvin: life, labours and legacy

by Flood, Raymond McCartney, Mark Whitaker, Andrew

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This work contains a collection of chapters, authored by leading experts, which cover the life and wide-ranging scientific contributions made by William Thomson, Lord Kelvin (1824-1907).

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Full title :Kelvin : life, labours and legacy / edited by Raymond Flood, Mark McCartney, and Andrew Whitaker.

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This work contains a collection of chapters, authored by leading experts, which cover the life and wide-ranging scientific contributions made by William Thomson, Lord Kelvin (1824-1907).

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2008.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
Place of Publication:Oxford
Language:eng
Publication Date:2008.

The Physical Object

Description:xii, 358 pages : : illustrations ; : 25 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780199231256, 0199231257, 9780191528248, 0191528242, 6611852654, 9786611852658
oclc:ocn166625002
LC Classification:QC16.K3
Dewey Decimal:530.092

William Thomson : an introductory biography / Mark McCartney -- Educating William : Belfast, Glasgow, and Cambridge / Alex D.D. Craik -- On the early work of William Thomason : mathematical physics and methodology in the 1840s / I. Grattan-Guinness -- James Thomson and the culture of a Victorian engineer / Peter Bowler -- Fifty-eight years of friendship : Kelvin and Stokes / Alastair Wood -- Kelvin and Fitzgerlad : great Irish physicists / Denis Weaire -- Concepts and models of the magnetic field / John Roche -- 'A dynamical form of mechanical effect' : Thomson's thermodynamics / Iwan Rhys Morus -- Kelvin and engineering / Bernard Crossland -- William Thomson's determinations of the age of the earth / Patrick N. Wyse Jackson -- Thomson and Tait : the Treatise on natural philosophy / Raymond Flood -- Kelvin on atoms and molecules / Elizabeth Garber -- Kelvin and the development of science in Meiji, Japan / Colin Latimer -- Kelvin, Maxwell, Einstein and the ether : who was right about what? / C.W. Francis Everitt -- Kelvin and statistical mechanics / Oliver Penrose -- Kelvin : the legacy / Andrew Whitaker.

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33.01 history of physics 35.01 history of chemistry Biografie Biographies (form) Great Britain History Kelvin, William Thomson Kelvin, William Thomson,, Baron Natuurkundigen Physiciens -- Grande-Bretagne Physicists Physicists -- Great Britain physics Physics -- History -- 19th century Physique -- Histoire -- 19e siècle thermodynamica Thomson, William,, baron Kelvin