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Lord Kelvin (1824 - 1907)
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William Thomson (later Lord Kelvin) was born June 26, 1824 in Belfast, Ireland,
and was part of a large family whose mother died when he was six. His father
taught Kelvin and his brothers mathematics to a level beyond that of university
courses of the time.
Kelvin was somewhat of a genius, and had his first papers published in 1840.
The .... Middle of paper
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heat and motion were combined, which now is taken as second nature. At the time,
heat was thought to have been a fluid of some kind.
Kelvin also maintained an interest in the age of the sun and calculated values
for it. He assumed that the sun produced its radiant energy from the
gravitational potential of matter falling into the sun. In collaboration with
Hermann von Helmholtz, he calculated and published in 1853 a value of 50 million
ye ....
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