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"On the 23rd of December 1907, with all the pomp that the British Empire could muster, William Thomson, Baron Kelvin of Largs was buried in Westminster Abbey beside the nation's most venerated scientist, Sir Isaac Newton. In his lifetime Thomson was seen as the most important na…
Kelvin: life, labours and legacy
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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).
Kelvin: life, labours and legacy
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Type: Book
Lord Kelvin was one of the greatest physicists of the Victorian era. Widely known for the development of the Kelvin scale of temperature measurement, Kelvin's interests ranged across thermodynamics, the age of the Earth, the laying of the first transatlantic telegraph cable, not…
