The University of Glasgow is celebrating the 200th anniversary of the birth of one of the world's most renowned scientists. Lord Kelvin was the professor of natural philosophy at the university for 53 ...

William Thomson, better known as Lord Kelvin (1824-1907), was a Scottish physicist, engineer and inventor who defined absolute zero—the theoretical absence of all thermal energy. The musical ...

THE hundredth anniversary of the birth of William Thomson, Baron Kelvin of Largs, was commemorated in Glasgow and elsewhere on June 2?. Although Glasgow was the scene of Lord Kelvin's life-work he was ...

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Shan Macdonald, Curatorial assistant for Scientific Instruments selected this object from the Hunterian Museum's collection. Shan writes - Sir William Thomson (Lord Kelvin 1824 - 1907) was appointed ...

The Kelvin scale of temperature is the generally used in science, particularly in the physical sciences. The Celsius scale is still used a in many areas of physical science, but the Kelvin that is the ...

Lord Kelvin was one of the world's most famous physicists The University of Glasgow is celebrating the 200th anniversary of the birth of one of the world's most renowned scientists. Lord Kelvin was ...

IN NATURE for September 7, 1876, there was published, with the engraved portrait by Jeans, in the series of “Scientific Worthies,” an account of Lord Kelvin, then Sir William Thomson, and of the ...