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Name :
William Thomson
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Birth Date :
26/06/1824
Birth Place :
Belfast, Ireland.
Death Date :
December 17, 1907
[b]•[/b] William Thomson today can be recognized as the best type of engineer and a true man of science as well. One can say for him that he stands in the world’s greatest physicists roll call of honor.[br /]
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[b]•[/b] Sir William’s interest in science was not confined to electricity, magnetism, thermodynamics, and hydrodynamics, but also to geographical questions about tides, the shape of the Earth, atmospheric electricity, and thermal studies.[br /]
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[b]•[/b] He served as professor for 53 years at the University of Glasgow. He became the president of the Royal Society in 1895.[br /]
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[b]•[/b] As a mathematician and physicist, Kelvin laid the foundation theory of electric oscillations. He introduced the absolute scale of temperature and propounded the doctrine of the dissipation of energy.[br /]
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[b]•[/b] As an engineer he was successful in laying the Atlantic cable. The course of his professional work was changed due to his involvement in a controversy over the feasibility of laying a transatlantic cable. While he began work on his project in 1854, he was asked to explain his theories.[br /]
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[b]•[/b] In his reply, William referred to his earlier paper, "On the Uniform Motion of Heat in Homogeneous Solid Bodies and its Connection with the Mathematical Theory of Electricity."[br /]
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[b]•[/b] In spite of all his great achievements and vast knowledge, and number of honors he received from the government William Kelvin remained the simplest, kindest and the most easily approachable man.[br /]
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[b]•[/b] He always encouraged or praised even the humblest student and even would as much care over the simplest thesis that was submitted to him. William taught and put into practice that, "the best performance of everyday occupations of mankind are those to which the principles of science are rigidly applied." Thus his kind of work is given the term, ‘applied science.’[br /]
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[b]•[/b] Sir William’s interest in science was not confined to electricity, magnetism, thermodynamics, and hydrodynamics, but also to geographical questions about tides, the shape of the Earth, atmospheric electricity, and thermal studies.[br /]
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[b]•[/b] He served as professor for 53 years at the University of Glasgow. He became the president of the Royal Society in 1895.[br /]
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[b]•[/b] As a mathematician and physicist, Kelvin laid the foundation theory of electric oscillations. He introduced the absolute scale of temperature and propounded the doctrine of the dissipation of energy.[br /]
[br /]
[b]•[/b] As an engineer he was successful in laying the Atlantic cable. The course of his professional work was changed due to his involvement in a controversy over the feasibility of laying a transatlantic cable. While he began work on his project in 1854, he was asked to explain his theories.[br /]
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[b]•[/b] In his reply, William referred to his earlier paper, "On the Uniform Motion of Heat in Homogeneous Solid Bodies and its Connection with the Mathematical Theory of Electricity."[br /]
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[b]•[/b] In spite of all his great achievements and vast knowledge, and number of honors he received from the government William Kelvin remained the simplest, kindest and the most easily approachable man.[br /]
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[b]•[/b] He always encouraged or praised even the humblest student and even would as much care over the simplest thesis that was submitted to him. William taught and put into practice that, "the best performance of everyday occupations of mankind are those to which the principles of science are rigidly applied." Thus his kind of work is given the term, ‘applied science.’[br /]
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