Lord Kelvin (1824 - 1907)
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William Thomson (later Lord Kelvin) was born June 26, 1824 in Belfast, Ireland,
and was part of a large family whose mother died when he was six. His father
taught Kelvin and his brothers mathematics to a level beyond that of university
courses of the time.
Kelvin was somewhat of a genius, and had ....
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.... in the same year was elected to the Royal Society. This work
contained his ideas and version of the second law of thermodynamics as well as
James Joule’s idea of the mechanical equivalent of heat. This idea claimed that
heat and motion were combined, which now is taken as second nature. At the time,
heat was thought to have been a fluid of some kind.
Kelvin also maintained an interest in the age of the sun and calculated values
for it. He assumed that the sun produced its radiant energy f ....
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