James Prescott Joule is credited with the fundamental discovery that opened a new paradigm of the nature of heat, which allowed many new discoveries and inventions. A rather unassuming man in appearance, he had difficulty for a long time in convincing...

James Prescott Joule is credited with the fundamental discovery that opened a new paradigm of the nature of heat which allowed many new discoveries and inventions. A rather unassuming man in appearance, he had difficulty for a long time in convincing...

James Joule was perhaps the greatest amateur scientist of all time. He was the proprietor of a successful brewery who never held an academic post--in fact, he never completed an undergraduate degree. Today he is recognized as an important contributor...

The English physicist James Prescott Joule (1818-1889) proved that mechanical and thermal energies are interconvertible on a fixed basis, and thus he established the great principle of conservation of energy. On Dec. 24, 1818, James Joule was born at...