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James Thomson Bottomley
LLD FRS FRSE
Born10 January 1845
Fort Breda, County Down, Ireland
Died18 May 1926
Glasgow, Scotland
NationalityBritish
Alma mater
  • Queens College, Belfast
  • Trinity College, Dublin
OccupationPhysicist

James Thomson Bottomley FRS FRSE (10 January 1845 – 18 May 1926) was an Irish-born British physicist.

He is noted for his work on thermal radiation and on his creation of 4-figure logarithm tables, used to convert long multiplication and division calculations to simpler addition and subtraction before the introduction of fast calculators.

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as a Fellow included Lord Kelvin, John Gray McKendrick, James Thomson Bottomley and Sir James Dewar. He died on 18 December 1888. Minutes of Proceedings...

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Edinburgh. His proposers were John Gray McKendrick, Alexander Buchan, James Thomson Bottomley and Magnus Maclean. He took a particular interest in Esperanto...

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Edinburgh. His proposers were Lord Kelvin, John Gray McKendrick, James Thomson Bottomley and Sir Arthur Mitchell. He was knighted by King George V in 1935...

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observations. His proposers were William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, John Gray McKendrick, William Dittmar and James Thomson Bottomley. His company Schulze, Paton & Co...

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