William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin,
OM,
GCVO,
PC,
PRS,
FRSE, (26
June
1824 –
17 December
1907) was a
mathematical physicist,
engineer, and outstanding leader in the
physical sciences of the
19th century. He did important work in the
mathematical analysis of
electricity and
thermodynamics, and did much to unify the
emerging discipline of
physics in its modern form. He is widely known
for developing the
Kelvin scale of absolute temperature
measurement. When he was raised to the peerage he
took the title Baron Kelvin from the river that ran
by the university.
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