Lord Kelvin
Lord Kelvin Lord Kelvin Who was “Lord Kelvin”?
Lord Kelvin Lord Kelvin Who was “Lord Kelvin”? What was “Lord Kelvin’s” NAME??
Lord Kelvin Lord Kelvin Who was “Lord Kelvin”? What was “Lord Kelvin’s” NAME?? Hints His first name was NOT “Lord”!!
Lord Kelvin Lord Kelvin Who was “Lord Kelvin”? What was “Lord Kelvin’s” NAME?? Hints His first name was NOT “Lord”!! His last name was NOT “Kelvin”!!
Lord Kelvin Lord Kelvin Who was “Lord Kelvin”? What was “Lord Kelvin’s” NAME?? Hints His first name was NOT “Lord”!! His last name was NOT “Kelvin”!! “Lord Kelvin” was his
Lord Kelvin Lord Kelvin Who was “Lord Kelvin”? What was “Lord Kelvin’s” NAME?? Hints His first name was NOT “Lord”!! His last name was NOT “Kelvin”!! “Lord Kelvin” was his British Title NOT his NAME!!
Born June 26th 1824, Belfast, Ireland Born June 26th 1824, Belfast, Ireland Graduated AT AGE 10 from The University of Glasgow!! Earned a BA from Cambridge Much later, became chair of “natural philosophy” (PHYSICS) at Glasgow. Died of the flu in 1907, in Scotland. Got title “Baron Kelvin of Largs” in 1892. Knighted by Queen Victoria for work on engines. “Kelvin” was taken from a creek that ran through the Cambridge University campus. Buried next to Sir Isaac Newton.
Published 661 scientific papers! Published 661 scientific papers! Held 70 patents! Held the record for the Engineering Contributions: - Supervised the laying of the
first transatlantic cable. Basic Science Contributions: - Helped Pierre & Marie Curie with the
- discovery of radium.
- Was the first to make a detailed
- analysis of ocean tides.
Kelvin also had many achievements in Optics! - First introduced the word chirality into science.
- First to associate an object’s
- color with it’s temperature.
- His ideas are still used today in
- color film & digital cameras.
Calculated the age of the earth from its rate of cooling & decided that Evolution & Geologic time were impossible! This led to a public argument with Charles Darwin over evolution & the earth’s age. More on this some other time!
- “When you can measure what you are speaking
- about and express it in numbers, you know
- something about it; but when you cannot
- measure, when you cannot express it in
- numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and
- unsatisfactory kind: it may be the beginning
- of knowledge, but you have scarcely, in your
- thoughts, advanced to the stage of science.”
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