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Presentation of Bust of Lord Kelvin - Nature
AT the general statutory meeting of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, held on October 27, a marble bust of the late Lord Kelvin, by Mr. A. M'Farlane Shannan ...
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Lord Kelvin's Origin of Granite - Nature
IT is a sound maxim that if you want a thing done you must do it yourself. So, as no expert has replied to my query as to the soundness of Lord Kelvin's ...
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Lord Kelvin and his First Teacher in Natural Philosophy - Nature
SOME interesting early recollections were related by Lord Kelvin on October 17, on the occasion of the unveiling of a stained glass window, by Henry Holiday ...
University and Educational Intelligence - Nature
GLASGOW.—The late Lady Kelvin of Largs, widow of Lord Kelvin, Chancellor of the University of Glasgow, and for more than fifty years professor of natural ...
Lord Kelvin and the British Metrical System - Nature
ON June 2, 1897, in his well-known address to the Victoria Institute on “The Age of the Earth”, Lord Kelvin said : “I must first ask you to excuse my giving ...
Extension of Kelvin's Thermoelectric Theory - Nature
LORD KELVIN'S thermoelectric theory has always seemed to me to be one of his best works. Since its enunciation the scope of the electric current has been ...
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British physicist and engineer
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, OM, GCVO, PC, FRS, FRSE was a British mathematician, mathematical physicist and engineer born in Belfast. Wikipedia