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1825–1907 · British physicist and engineer (1824–1907)

Also known as: William Thomson, Baron Kelvin, Kelvin, Kelvin of Largs, Lord Kelvin, Sir William Thomson

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Known works

Kelvin's Baltimore lectures and modern theoretical physics
Treatise on natural philosophy
The problem of a spherical gaseous nebula
Baltimore lectures on molecular dynamics and the wave theory of light
Baltimore lectures on molecular dynamics and the wave theory of light, founded on Mr. A.S. Hathaway's stenographic report of twenty lectures delivered in Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, in October 1884