Biography of lord kelvin

Lord Kelvin  ©Kelvin was a Scottish mathematician and physicist who developed the Kelvin scale of temperature measurement.

William Thomson was born on 26 June 1824 in Belfast. He was taught by his father, a professor of mathematics. In 1832, the family moved to Glasgow where Thomson attended university from the age of 10, subsequently studying at Cambridge and Paris universities. In 1846 he became professor of natural philosophy in Glasgow, a post he would hold for more than 50 years.

In Glasgow, Thomson created the first physics laboratory in Britain. He was a pionjär in many different fields, particularly electromagnetism and thermodynamics. Together with Faraday, he was responsible for the introduction of the concept of an electromagnetic field. In thermodynamics, Thomson assimilated and developed the work of the pioneers of the subject, Nicolas Carnot and James Joule. One of the most important results of his work was his

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Lord Kelvin

British physicist, engineer and mathematician (1824–1907)

For other people named William Thomson, see William Thomson (disambiguation).

William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin (26 June 1824 – 17 December 1907^[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 1883 and served as its president from 1890 to 1895. In 1892, he became the first scientist to be elevated to the House of Lords.^[12]

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Lord Kelvin (1824-1907)

Famous for:

• Devising the absolute temperature scale, now called the 'Kelvin scale'
• Formulating the second law of thermodynamics
• Working to install telegraph cables under the Atlantic.

Lord Kelvin (William Thomson) was an eminent physicist with a wide range of interests and enthusiasms.

Best remembered for his talent for theoretical mathematics, he also had a practical ability for solving problems. Thanks to his persistence and ingenuity, the first telegraph cable was successfully installed under the Atlantic Ocean.

Early life and education

William Thomson was born at 21-25 College Square East in Belfast in 1824. This location was later home to the first cinema in Belfast – 'the Kelvin'.

Lord Kelvin's father became Professor of Mathematics at Glasgow University. Kelvin attended university classes from the age of 10. He wrote his first scientific paper, under the pseudonym 'PQR', aged only 16.

In his teens he learned French well enough