William Thomson, known to history as Lord Kelvin, was granted the first scientific peerage by Queen Victoria in 1892 for his unique consulting work that made possible the installation of the transatlantic cable linking the telegraph systems of America...

William Thomson Kelvin was born on June 26, 1824, in northern Ireland. He died on December 17, 1907, in Scotland. He was also known as Sir William Thomson, Baron William Thomson Kelvin of Largs, and Lord Kelvin. He was the son of James Thomson, a...

William (Lord Kelvin) Thomson is recognized as the premier scientific mind of the nineteenth century, and perhaps the greatest thinker since Isaac Newton (1642-1727). He originated new schools of thought in physics, thermodynamics, electronics, and...

William Thomson was among the most prodigious minds in British history. He was responsible for landmark accomplishments in the fields of thermodynamics, geology, and electrophysics, as well as for the invention of numerous scientific devices. In 1892...

The Irish physicist William Thomson, Baron Kelvin of Largs (1824-1907), was the originator of the absolute scale of temperature and was one of the founders of thermodynamics. William Thomson was born on June 26, 1824, at Belfast, Ireland. His father...