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William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin was a prolific scientific scholar who gave his name to several things.

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List of things named after Lord Kelvin

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effect Kelvin Gold Medal, British engineering prize named after Lord Kelvin Kelvin Medal and Prize, British physics prize named after Lord Kelvin Kelvin cat's...

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Lord Kelvin

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elevated to the House of Lords. Absolute temperatures are stated in units of kelvin in Lord Kelvin's honour. While the existence of a coldest possible temperature...

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Kelvin equation

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The Kelvin equation describes the change in vapour pressure due to a curved liquid–vapor interface, such as the surface of a droplet. The vapor pressure...

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List of eponymous laws

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This list of eponymous laws provides links to articles on laws, principles, adages, and other succinct observations or predictions named after a person...

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List of scientific units named after people

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list of scientific units named after people. For other lists of eponyms (names derived from people) see eponym. Note that by convention, the name of the...

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Kelvingrove Park

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park also contains statues of physicist Lord Kelvin, writer Thomas Carlyle, Field Marshal Lord Roberts and chemist Lord Lister, as well as the Cameronians...

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Scientific phenomena named after people

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This is a list of scientific phenomena and concepts named after people (eponymous phenomena). For other lists of eponyms, see eponym. Contents:  Top A...

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International System of Units

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The concept of a system of units emerged a hundred years before the SI. In the 1860s, James Clerk Maxwell, William Thomson (later Lord Kelvin), and others...

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List of Black Butler characters

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the workhouse, whom Kelvin claimed he looks after if they all do what they are told. Joker was unaware of the fact that the bones of the kidnapped children...

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History of thermodynamics

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science. (The name "thermodynamics", however, did not arrive until 1854, when the British mathematician and physicist William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) coined the...

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Senior Wrangler

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person's name. Those who have achieved second place, known as Second Wranglers, include Alfred Marshall, James Clerk Maxwell, J. J. Thomson, Lord Kelvin, William...

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Clone High

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High is an American adult animated science fiction sitcom created by Phil Lord, Christopher Miller, and Bill Lawrence that premiered on Canadian cable channel...

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History of physics

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by William Thomson, later known as Lord Kelvin, and Rudolf Clausius. Lord Kelvin, who had extended the concept of absolute zero from gases to all substances...

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The Mikado

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man, despair"). Ko-Ko enters ("Behold the Lord High Executioner") and asserts himself by reading off a list of people "who would not be missed" if they...

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List of Black Butler episodes

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and the second on February 25, 2009. After the sixth episode, the anime begins to diverge from the storyline of the manga. The second season, which premiered...

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List of musician and band name etymologies

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Lord of the Rings, named after a pass in Mordor. (Carach Angren means "Iron Jaws" in Elvish.) Car Seat Headrest – Founder Will Toledo chose the name "Car...

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Joseph Lister

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statue of Lord Kelvin. The Discovery Expedition of 1901–1904 named the highest point in the Royal Society Range, Antarctica, Mount Lister. In 1879, Listerine...

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Elizabeth II

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Finances of the British royal family Household of Elizabeth II List of things named after Elizabeth II List of jubilees of Elizabeth II List of special...

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Jared Leto

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(Leto) is caught with the wife of his employer, a Vegas thug, and flees to Seattle with his best friend, Pilot Kelvin (Jake Gyllenhaal), in the week preceding...

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The Shannara Chronicles

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right-hand man. Kelvin Taylor as Crimson 3, General Riga's third in command. Caroline Chikezie as Queen Tamlin (season 2), the formidable leader of the human...

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History of the metric system

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(Lord Kelvin). The concept of naming units of measure after noteworthy scientists was subsequently used for other units. In 1873, another committee of...

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List of Christians in science and technology

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life. Lord Kelvin (1824–1907): At the University of Glasgow he did important work in the mathematical analysis of electricity and formulation of the first...

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The Night Watch

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nuances of the painting's complex color palette.[citation needed] The new illumination uses LED lights with a color temperature of 3,200 kelvin, similar...

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William James Sidis

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entertaining the notion that life came to Earth from asteroids (as advanced by Lord Kelvin and Hermann von Helmholtz). Sidis also writes that functionally speaking...

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Cragside

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Study of Lord Kelvin. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-12925-1. OCLC 772888593. Smith, Ken (2005). Emperor of Industry: Lord Armstrong...

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Clock

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few seconds over trillions of years. Atomic clocks were first theorized by Lord Kelvin in 1879. In the 1930s the development of magnetic resonance created...

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