William (Thomson), 1st Baron Kelvin of Largs, physicist, mathematician, engineer and inventor, was buried in the nave of Westminster Abbey. He was born on 26th June 1824 in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

William Thomson, first Baron Kelvin, was born in Belfast on the 26th of June, 1824. His father, James Thomson, was professor of mathematics at Glasgow University, from which seat of learning he ...

Shan writes - Sir William Thomson (Lord Kelvin 1824 - 1907) was appointed to the position of Chair of Natural Philosophy (the subject we now call Physics) in 1846. He remained at the University of ...

Lord Kelvin — also known as William Thomson — hypothesized a shape known as an isotropic helicoid. As its name implies, the shape would look the same from any angle. Kelvin predicted that such ...

From thermodynamics to refrigeration and the development of radio, Lord Kelvin’s contributions to science were many and varied Nineteenth-century scientist William Thomson, Lord Kelvin ...

The invention of the mirror galvanometer inspired poetry and led to Thomson being knighted Lord Kelvin, the first scientist to receive such an honor. And Kelvin's name lives on; one year after his ...

A talk on one of Largs and the world's most influential scientific figures in history is to be provided at a forthcoming talk ...

Lord Kelvin’s name comes up anytime you start ... Kelvin, whose real name was William Thomson, became interested in tides in a roundabout way, as explained in a recent IEEE Spectrum article.

Born William Thomson in 1824, Lord Kelvin was a renowned 19th-century scientist who made significant contributions to physics, engineering, and mathematics. Lord Kelvin was a renowned 19th-century ...

Victorian engineer, inventor, mathematician and physicist, William Thomson spent more than 50 ... his name is being honoured with the Young Kelvin Prize, a competition designed to inspire and ...