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1st Baron Kelvin. Irish-Scottish mathematical physicist and engineer and a leader in the physical sciences of the 19th century.
William Thomson
Works
- "Note on a Passage in Fourier's Heat" from the Cambridge Mathematical Journal, Volume III, November 1841
- "On the Possible Density of the Luminiferous Medium, and on the Mechanical Value of a Cubic Mile of Sunlight", Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1854), p.57.
- "On the Ultramundane Corpuscles of Le Sage" (From Edinb. Roy. Soc. Proc. Vol. vn. 1872, pp. 577-589 [read Dec. 18, 1871]
- Reprint of papers on electrostatics and magnetism, 1872 (external scan)
- Elements of natural philosophy. With by Peter Guthrie Tait
- Mathematical and physical papers, 1882 (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
- The practical applications of electricity, 1884 contributor (external scan)
- "William Thomson's account of his Christian faith" (from the annual meeting of the Christian Evidence Society) (23 May 1889)
- Popular lectures and addresses, 1891 (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2, 3)
- The molecular tactics of a crystal, 1894 (external scan)
- The free expansion of gases: memoirs, 1898 contributor (external scan)
- The second law of thermodynamics; memoirs, 1899 contributor (external scan)
- Baltimore lectures on molecular dynamics and the wave theory of light. 1904 (external scan)
- Scientific papers: physics, chemistry, astronomy, geology, 1910 contributor (external scan)
Articles in Popular Science Monthly
Works about Thomson
- "Thomson, (Sir) William," in Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886, by Joseph Foster, London: Parker and Co. (1888–1892) in 4 vols.
- "Sketch of Sir William Thomson" in Popular Science Monthly, 10 (January 1877)
- "Kelvin, William Thomson, Baron," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
- "Thomson, William (1824-1907)," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1912 supplement, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1912) in 3 vols.
- Kelvin, in Biographies of Scientific Men (1912)
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