Kelvin: Life, Labours and Legacy

Raymond Flood · Mark McCartney · Andrew Whitaker

2008年4月 · OUP Oxford

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Lord Kelvin was one of the greatest physicists of the Victorian era. Widely known for the development of the Kelvin scale of temperature measurement, Kelvin's interests ranged across thermodynamics, the age of the Earth, the laying of the first transatlantic telegraph cable, not to mention inventions such as an improved maritime compass and a sounding device which allowed depths to be taken both quickly and while the ship was moving. He was an academic engaged in fundamental research, while also working with industry and technological advances. He corresponded and collaborated with other eminent men of science such as Stokes, Joule, Maxwell and Helmholtz, was raised to the peerage as a result of his contributions to science, and finally buried in Westminster Abbey next to Newton. This book contains a collection of chapters, authored by leading experts, covering the life and wide-ranging scientific contributions made by William Thomson, Lord Kelvin (1824-1907).

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Raymond Flood is University Lecturer in Computer Studies and Mathematics in the Continuing Education Department in Oxford University Mark McCartney is a lecturer in mathematics at the University of Ulster. Andrew Whitaker is Professor of Physics at Queen's University Belfast.