Lord Kelvin

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Baron in the Peerage of the United Kingdom Fellow of the Royal Society President of the Royal Society engineer human mathematician member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh peer of the United Kingdom physicist university teacher

Lord Kelvin was a pioneering 19th-century physicist and engineer best known for his work on thermodynamics and the absolute temperature scale that bears his name.

Aliases (2)

William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin ×3
William Thomson ×1

Statements (61)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Baron in the Peerage of the United Kingdom → Fellow of the Royal Society → President of the Royal Society → engineer → human → mathematician → member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh → peer of the United Kingdom → physicist → university teacher →
academicDegree	Master of Arts →
awardReceived	Copley Medal → Order of Merit → Royal Medal →
birthName	William Thomson →
burialPlace	Westminster Abbey →
causeOfDeath	chill →
countryOfCitizenship	United Kingdom → United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland →
dateOfBirth	1824-06-26 →
dateOfDeath	1907-12-17 →
educatedAt	Peterhouse, Cambridge → University of Cambridge NERFINISHED → University of Glasgow →
employer	University of Glasgow →
ethnicGroup	Scottish people →
familyName	Thomson →
fieldOfWork	electromagnetism → engineering → mathematical physics → thermodynamics →
givenName	William →
hasUnitNamedAfter	degree Kelvin (historical name) → kelvin →
influenced	James Clerk Maxwell → Ludwig Boltzmann →
influencedBy	James Prescott Joule → Sadi Carnot →
knownFor	Kelvin temperature scale → Kelvin–Planck statement of the second law of thermodynamics → absolute zero concept in thermodynamics → work on energy dissipation and the age of the Earth →
languageOfWorkOrName	English →
memberOf	Royal Society → Royal Society of Edinburgh →
nativeLanguage	English →
nobleTitle	Baron Kelvin →
notableWork	contributions to the second law of thermodynamics → development of the absolute thermodynamic temperature scale → formulation of the Kelvin scale → work on the dynamical theory of heat → work on the transatlantic telegraph cable →
placeOfBirth	Belfast → County Antrim → Ireland →
placeOfDeath	Ayrshire NERFINISHED → Largs → Scotland →
positionHeld	Professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Glasgow →
religion	Presbyterianism →
residence	Glasgow →

Referenced by (11)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Peterhouse, Cambridge → University of Glasgow → University of Glasgow ("William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin") →	hasNotableAlumnus
Copley Medal → Royal Medal →	notableRecipient
Lord Kelvin ("William Thomson") →	birthName
Thomson ("William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin") →	hasNotableBearer
Henry Cavendish →	influenced
Oliver Heaviside ("William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin") →	influencedBy
Philosophical Magazine →	notableAuthor
Athenaeum Club →	notableMember