“Lord Kelvin was a towering presence in the world of physics for more than half a century. He played a defining role in its emergence as a distinct subject and has often been called the last of the ...

Over an illustrious career spanning decades, William Thomson, the 1st Baron Kelvin, made tremendous contributions to the mathematical analysis of electricity, and formulation of the first and second ...

William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, made enormous contributions to science and technology, in particular his work on the foundations of thermodynamics, in the development of the first successful ...

THE hundredth anniversary of the birth of William Thomson, Baron Kelvin of Largs, was commemorated in Glasgow and elsewhere on June 2?. Although Glasgow was the scene of Lord Kelvin's life-work he was ...

AT the present time, when the need for a fully-equipped and well-manned National Physical Laboratory for expensive and for secular observations is sometimes discussed, it is interesting to quote from ...