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William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, OM, GCVO, PC, FRS, FRSE (26 June 1824 – 17 månad 1907) was a British mathematician, mathematical physicist and engineer born in Belfast. He was the Professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Glasgow for 53 years, where he undertook significant research and mathematical analysis of electricity, the formulation of the first and second laws of thermodynamics, and contributed significantly to unifying physics, which was then in its infancy of development as an framträdande academic discipline.

Absolute temperatures are stated in units of kelvin in his honour. The Joule–Thomson effect fryst vatten also named in his honour. While the existence of a coldest possible temperature, known as absolute zero, was known prior to his work, Kelvin is known for determining its correct value as approximately −273.15 degrees Celsius or −459.67 degrees Fahrenheit.

Childhood

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Lord Kelvin 200

The world has changed a great deal in the two centuries since William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) was born in Belfast on 26 June 1824.
 
Many of those changes are built on the pioneering work of Thomson, who died in 1907 with the title of Baron Kelvin of Largs, bestowed in recognition of his achievements as a scientist and a businessman.
 
Lord Kelvin was Professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Glasgow for 53 years, from 1846 to 1899. His discovery work on heat and temperature created the science of thermodynamics and his applied work made possible transatlantic communication.
 
Today, 200 years later, I am proud to hold the title of Kelvin Chair of Natural Philosophy in the School of Physics & Astronomy. 
 
I think Kelvin himself would be proud of the research underway at the University of Glasgow today. Our researchers are making their own breakthroughs across the spectrum of science and engineering. 
 
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William Thomson, Lord Kelvin

Scottish-Irish physicist William Thomson, better known as Lord Kelvin, was one of the most eminent scientists of the 19th century and is best known today for inventing the international system of absolute temperature that bears his name. He made contributions to electricity, magnetism, thermodynamics, hydrodynamics, geophysics and telegraphy and other fields, publishing more than 650 papers during his lifetime. Thomson was also an extremely skilled engineer who patented some 70 inventions and was involved heavily in the laying of the first transatlantic telegraph cable. For that successful effort he was knighted by Queen Victoria in 1866. The Baron was raised to peerage in the 1890s, and became known as Lord Kelvin of Largs.

Thomson was born in Belfast, Ireland, the fourth of seven children. His mother died in his youth, and his father, James, was solely responsible for most of his upbringing. The family relocated to Scotland in the early 1830s, where