Lord Kelvin’s name comes up anytime you start looking at the history of science and technology. In addition to working on transatlantic cables and thermodynamics, he also built an early ...

Lord Kelvin: How the 19th ... Perhaps Thomson's most well known discovery is the concept of absolute zero on the temperature ...

TRIBUTE TO MARCONI'S WORK.; Lord Kelvin Says He Hopes to See the Time When Wireless Messages Will Go Around the World. Share full article. April 22, 1902.

Kelvin-Helmholtz clouds are named after Lord Kelvin and Hermann von Helmholtz, and moreover, after their discovery of Kelvin-Helmholtz instability.

Lord Kelvin's written works are in seven volumes, not including a "Treatise on Natural Philosophy," written in conjunction with Prof. P. C. Tait. Of these volumes, ...

Lord Kelvin was born William Thomson in Belfast on 26 June 1824. At the age of nine he moved to the University of Glasgow when his father was appointed professor of mathematics - and by the age of ...

“Lord Kelvin certainly had a strong work ethic but also a strong sense of civic responsibility,” says Professor Martin Hendry, the University of Glasgow’s Clerk of Senate and Vice Principal.

LORD KELVIN'S work was great and many-sided. We might compare it to the cathedral in some crowded mediaeval city, where no place can be found commanding a general view. You approach by one narrow ...

The University of Glasgow is celebrating the 200th anniversary of the birth of one of the world's most renowned scientists. Lord Kelvin was the professor of natural philosophy at the university ...

2024 marks the bicentenary of William Thomson, aka Lord Kelvin, arguably the most influential scientist of the 19th century and perhaps beyond.