William (Thomson), 1st Baron Kelvin of Largs, physicist, mathematician, engineer and inventor, was buried in the nave of Westminster Abbey. He was born on 26th June 1824 in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

His biography is well and sympathetically written, it affords a vivid, and, on the whole, a true picture of Lord Kelvin as a student of science, as a university teacher, as an engineer and man of ...

William Thomson, first Baron Kelvin, was born in Belfast on the 26th of June, 1824. His father, James Thomson, was professor of mathematics at Glasgow University, from which seat of learning he ...

From thermodynamics to refrigeration and the development of radio, Lord Kelvin’s contributions to science were many and ...

The Kelvin (K), named after British physicist William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), is the thermodynamic temperature unit in the International System of Units (SI). It is derived from the third law of ...

Born William Thomson in 1824, Lord Kelvin was a renowned 19th-century scientist who made significant contributions to physics, engineering, and mathematics. Lord Kelvin was a renowned 19th-century ...

Victorian engineer, inventor, mathematician and physicist, William Thomson spent more than 50 ... his name is being honoured with the Young Kelvin Prize, a competition designed to inspire and ...

Shan writes - This tide gauge was invented by William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) c.1880 and manufactured by his instrument maker James White of Glasgow in 1882. The gauge was one of several made for ...