Kelvin in 1876 (Photo B36/6) William Thomson, Professor of Natural Philosophy in the University for 53 years from 1846, was universally recognized as the leading figure in the world of science for ...

It is difficult to imagine what Baron Kelvin William Thomson, a renowned Scottish physicist, mathematician and engineer for ...

Kelvin, whose real name was William Thomson, became interested in tides in a roundabout way, as explained in a recent IEEE Spectrum article. He’d made plenty of money on his patents related to ...

From thermodynamics to refrigeration and the development of radio, Lord Kelvin’s contributions to science were many and varied Nineteenth-century scientist William Thomson, Lord Kelvin ...

But Lord Kelvin started out as an electrician, and his own calculated age of the Earth was wrong. In 1864, William Thomson, ...

Sir William Thomson (better known as Lord Kelvin) designed one such “tide-predicting machine”, an impressive arrangement of gears and pulleys, back in the late 19th century. [Pepijn de Vos ...

Victorian engineer, inventor, mathematician and physicist, William Thomson spent more than 50 ... his name is being honoured with the Young Kelvin Prize, a competition designed to inspire and ...

William (Thomson), 1st Baron Kelvin of Largs, physicist, mathematician, engineer and inventor, was buried in the nave of Westminster Abbey. He was born on 26th June 1824 in Belfast, Northern Ireland.