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.

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All labels observed (4)

Label	Occurrences
Lord Kelvin canonical	15
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin	10
William Thomson	2
Scottish physicist 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	Lord Kelvin self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: William Thomson
burialPlace	Westminster Abbey, London ⓘ surface form: 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 ⓘ Cambridge University ⓘ surface form: University of Cambridge 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 ⓘ Carnot ⓘ surface form: Sadi Carnot
knownFor	kelvin ⓘ surface form: 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 ⓘ Largs ⓘ Scotland ⓘ
positionHeld	Professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Glasgow ⓘ
religion	Presbyterianism ⓘ
residence	Glasgow ⓘ

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Royal Medal → notableRecipient → Lord Kelvin ⓘ

Henry Cavendish → influenced → Lord Kelvin ⓘ

Peterhouse, Cambridge → hasNotableAlumnus → Lord Kelvin ⓘ

Copley Medal → notableRecipient → Lord Kelvin ⓘ

Oliver Heaviside → influencedBy → Lord Kelvin ⓘ

this entity surface form: William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin

University of Glasgow → hasNotableAlumnus → Lord Kelvin ⓘ

this entity surface form: William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin

Lord Kelvin → birthName → Lord Kelvin self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: William Thomson

Athenaeum Club → notableMember → Lord Kelvin ⓘ

Philosophical Magazine → notableAuthor → Lord Kelvin ⓘ

Thomson → hasNotableBearer → Lord Kelvin ⓘ

this entity surface form: William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin

Augustus Edward Hough Love → influencedBy → Lord Kelvin ⓘ

River Kelvin → givesNameTo → Lord Kelvin ⓘ

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Senior Wrangler (Cambridge Mathematical Tripos) → hasNotableLaureate → Lord Kelvin ⓘ

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kelvin → namedAfter → Lord Kelvin ⓘ

this entity surface form: William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin

Frederick Thomas Trouton → influencedBy → Lord Kelvin ⓘ

Kelvin Medal → namedAfter → Lord Kelvin ⓘ

Baron Kelvin → namedAfter → Lord Kelvin ⓘ

this entity surface form: William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin

Baron Kelvin → namedAfter → Lord Kelvin ⓘ

Baron Kelvin → peerageCreationFor → Lord Kelvin ⓘ

this entity surface form: William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin

Baron Kelvin → peerageCreationFor → Lord Kelvin ⓘ

this entity surface form: Scottish physicist William Thomson

Baron Kelvin → titleHolderHonorific → Lord Kelvin ⓘ

Baron Kelvin → titleHolderFullName → Lord Kelvin ⓘ

this entity surface form: William Thomson

Kelvin–Planck statement of the second law of thermodynamics → namedAfter → Lord Kelvin ⓘ

this entity surface form: William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin

James Thomson (engineer) → sibling → Lord Kelvin ⓘ

this entity surface form: William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin

James Thomson (engineer) → relative → Lord Kelvin ⓘ