THOMSON, SIR WILLIAM, LORD KELVIN
- THOMSON, SIR WILLIAM, LORD KELVIN
great physicist, born at Belfast; studied at St. Peter's College, Cambridge; was senior wrangler in 1845, and elected professor of Natural Philosophy in Glasgow in 1846; it is in the departments of heat and electricity he has accomplished his greatest achievements, and his best-known work is the invention of the siphon-recorder for the Atlantic cable, on the completion of which, in 1866, he was knighted, to be afterwards raised to the peerage in 1892; he has invented a number of ingenious and delicate scientific instruments, as well as written extensively on mathematical and physical subjects; b. 1824.
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James Wood.
1907.
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Kelvin — Kẹl|vin 〈[ vın] n.; s, ; ; Phys.〉 Maßeinheit der auf den absoluten Nullpunkt bezogenen Temperatur (0K = 27,15°C) [nach dem engl. Physiker Sir William Thomson, Lord Kelvin of Largs, 1824 1907] * * * Kẹl|vin [nach dem brit. Physiker W. Lord… … Universal-Lexikon
KELVIN, LORD — See THOMSON, SIR WILLIAM … The Nuttall Encyclopaedia
Thomson — [tɔmsn], 1) Sir Charles Wyville, britischer Biologe und Ozeanograph, * Bonsyde (Lothian Region) 5. 3. 1830, ✝ ebenda 10. 3. 1882; ab 1870 Professor in Edinburgh, plante und leitete die Challenger Expedition (Challenger). 2) Sir (seit… … Universal-Lexikon
Thomson — may refer to:PeopleMain|Thomson (surname)includes name origin and people with the name * Alexander Greek Thomson (1817 ndash;1875), Scottish architect * J. J. Thomson (Sir Joseph John Thomson, 1856 ndash;1940), English physicist who discovered… … Wikipedia
