LORD KELVIN (1824-1907)

SCOTTISH ENGINEER, MATHEMATICIAN, AND PHYSICIST WHO PROFOUNDLY INFLUENCED THE SCIENTIFIC THOUGHT OF HIS GENERATION.

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• BORN June 26, 1824 Belfast, Northern Ireland
• DIED December 17, 1907 near Largs, Scotland

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.

1834-He entered Glasgow University (Aged 10)

He further studied at Cambridge and Paris before returning to Glasgow for his Professorship, which he got with the help of his father, who was still a Maths Professor.

Kelvin first defined the absolute temperature scale in 1847, which is now named after him

Naturalist Charles Darwin referred to Lord Kelvin as being 'like an odious spectre'.

Thomson’s interests in science included not only electricity, magnetism, thermodynamics, and hydrodynamics but also geophysical questions about tides, the shape of the Earth, atmospheric electricity, thermal studies of the ground, the Earth’s rotation, and geomagnetism. He also entered the controversy over Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution. Thomson opposed Darwin, remaining “on the side of the angels.”

Quick Facts
LISTED INPhysicists, Mathematicians
FAMOUS AS Physicist, Mathematician
NATIONALITY British
BORN ON 26 June 1824
DIED AT AGE 83
SUN SIGN Cancer
BORN IN Belfast, Ireland
DIED ON : 17 December 1907
PLACE OF DEATH : His Estate - Largs,Scotland

FATHER James Thomson
MOTHER Margaret Gardner
SIBLINGS James
SPOUSE/PARTNER: Margaret Crum
EDUCATION University of Cambridge
Peterhouse
Cambridge
University of Glasgow
Royal Belfast Academical Institution
AWARDS 1883 - Copley Medal …