Lord Kelvin (English Wikipedia)

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"David Thomson 17 Nov 1817 – 31st Jan 1880". Aberdeen University.

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Kragh, Helge (2002). "The Vortex Atom: A Victorian Theory of Everything". Centaurus. 44 (1–2): 32–114. doi:10.1034/j.1600-0498.2002.440102.x. Retrieved 9 March 2019.

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Thompson, Silvanus (1910). The Life of William Thomson, Baron Kelvin of Largs. Vol. 1. MacMillan and Co., Limited. p. 98.
Thomson, W. (March 1851). "On the Dynamical Theory of Heat, with numerical results deduced from Mr Joule's equivalent of a Thermal Unit, and M. Regnault's Observations on Steam". Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. XX (part II): 261–268, 289–298. Also published in Thomson, W. (December 1852). "On the Dynamical Theory of Heat, with numerical results deduced from Mr Joule's equivalent of a Thermal Unit, and M. Regnault's Observations on Steam". Phil. Mag. 4. IV (22): 8–21.
Lindley, p. 259 Lindley, D. (2004). Degrees Kelvin: A Tale of Genius, Invention and Tragedy. Joseph Henry Press. ISBN 978-0-309-09073-5.
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Imbrie, John; Imbrie, Katherine Palmer (1986). Ice ages: solving the mystery. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. p. 40. ISBN 978-0-674-44075-3.
Hamblin, W. Kenneth (1989). The Earth's Dynamic Systems 5th ed. Macmillan Publishing Company. p. 135. ISBN 978-0-02-349381-2.
Perry, John (1895) "On the age of the earth," Nature, 51 : 224–227, 341–342, 582–585. (51:224, 51:341, 51:582 at Internet Archive)
Thompson, Silvanus (1910). The Life of William Thomson, Baron Kelvin of Largs. Vol. 2. MacMillan and Co., Limited.
Thompson, Silvanus (1910). The Life of William Thomson, Baron Kelvin of Largs. Vol. 2. MacMillan and Co., Limited. p. 914.

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Aplin, K. L.; Harrison, R. G. (3 September 2013). "Lord Kelvin's atmospheric electricity measurements". History of Geo- and Space Sciences. 4 (2): 83–95. arXiv:1305.5347. Bibcode:2013HGSS....4...83A. doi:10.5194/hgss-4-83-2013. S2CID 9783512.

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Thomson, W. (1891). Popular Lectures and Addresses, Vol. I. London: MacMillan. p. 80. ISBN 978-0-598-77599-3. Retrieved 25 June 2012.
Thompson, Silvanus Phillips (January 1977). "The life of Lord Kelvin". American Journal of Physics. 45 (10): 1095. Bibcode:1977AmJPh..45.1010T. doi:10.1119/1.10735. ISBN 978-0-8284-0292-7.
Thompson, Silvanus Phillips (January 1977). "The life of Lord Kelvin". American Journal of Physics. 45 (10): 998. Bibcode:1977AmJPh..45.1010T. doi:10.1119/1.10735. ISBN 978-0-8284-0292-7.
"Lord Kelvin, Nineteenth Century Clouds over the Dynamical Theory of Heat and Light", reproduced in Notices of the Proceedings at the Meetings of the Members of the Royal Institution of Great Britain with Abstracts of the Discourses, Volume 16, p. 363–397

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Sharlin, Harold I. (2019). "William Thomson, Baron Kelvin". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 24 January 2020.
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Grabiner, Judy (2002). "Creators of Mathematics: The Irish Connection (book review)" (PDF). Irish Math. Soc. Bull. 48: 67. doi:10.33232/BIMS.0048.65.68. Retrieved 27 June 2016.
Thomson, William (1849). "An Account of Carnot's Theory of the Motive Power of Heat; with Numerical Results deduced from Regnault's Experiments on Steam". Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. 16 (5): 541–574. doi:10.1017/s0080456800022481. S2CID 120335729.
Smith, Crosbie. "Thomson, William". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/36507. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
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- "Thomson, William, Baron Kelvin". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/36507. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- Flood, Raymond; McCartney, Mark; Whitaker, Andrew (28 April 2009). "Kelvin and Ireland". Journal of Physics: Conference Series. 158: 011001. doi:10.1088/1742-6596/158/1/011001. S2CID 250690809.
- Hutchison, Iain (2009). "Lord Kelvin and Liberal Unionism". Journal of Physics: Conference Series. 158 (1). IOP Publishing: 012004. Bibcode:2009JPhCS.158a2004H. doi:10.1088/1742-6596/158/1/012004. S2CID 250693895.
- Trainer, Matthew (2008). "Lord Kelvin, Recipient of The John Fritz Medal in 1905". Physics in Perspective. 10: 212–223. doi:10.1007/s00016-007-0344-4. S2CID 124435108.
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- Thomson, W. (1848). "On an Absolute Thermometric Scale founded on Carnot's Theory of the Motive Power of Heat, and calculated from Regnault's observations". Mathematical and Physical Papers. Cambridge University Press. pp. 100–106. doi:10.1017/cbo9780511996009.040. ISBN 978-1-108-02898-1.
- Thomson, W. (1849). "An Account of Carnot's Theory of the Motive Power of Heat; with Numerical Results deduced from Regnault's Experiments on Steam". Mathematical and Physical Papers. Cambridge University Press. pp. 113–164. doi:10.1017/cbo9780511996009.042. ISBN 978-1-108-02898-1.
- Thomson, W. (1852). "On the dynamical theory of heat; with numerical results deduced from Mr. Joule's equivalent of a thermal unit and M. Regnault's observations on steam". Mathematical and Physical Papers. Cambridge University Press. pp. 174–332. doi:10.1017/cbo9780511996009.049. ISBN 978-1-108-02898-1.
- Joule, J. P.; Thomson, W. (30 June 2011). "On the thermal effects of fluids in motion". Mathematical and Physical Papers. Cambridge University Press. pp. 333–455. doi:10.1017/cbo9780511996009.050.
- Thomson, W. (1855). "On the theory of the electric telegraph". Mathematical and Physical Papers. Cambridge University Press. pp. 61–76. doi:10.1017/cbo9780511996016.009. ISBN 978-1-108-02899-8.
- Thomson, W. (1855). "On Peristaltic Induction of Electric Currents". Mathematical and Physical Papers. Cambridge University Press. pp. 77–91 [87]. doi:10.1017/cbo9780511996016.011.
- Thomson, W. (1856). "Letters on "telegraphs to America"". Mathematical and Physical Papers. Cambridge University Press. pp. 92–102. doi:10.1017/cbo9780511996016.012. ISBN 978-1-108-02899-8.
- Thomson, W. (1865). "On the forces concerned in the laying and lifting of deep-sea cables". Mathematical and Physical Papers. Cambridge University Press. pp. 153–167. doi:10.1017/cbo9780511996016.020. ISBN 978-1-108-02899-8.
- Aplin, K. L.; Harrison, R. G. (3 September 2013). "Lord Kelvin's atmospheric electricity measurements". History of Geo- and Space Sciences. 4 (2): 83–95. arXiv:1305.5347. Bibcode:2013HGSS....4...83A. doi:10.5194/hgss-4-83-2013. S2CID 9783512.
- Aplin, Karen L. (April 2012). "Smoke emissions from industrial western Scotland in 1859 inferred from Lord Kelvin's atmospheric electricity measurements". Atmospheric Environment. 50: 373–376. Bibcode:2012AtmEn..50..373A. doi:10.1016/j.atmosenv.2011.12.053.
- Harrison, R. G. (2003). "Twentieth-century atmospheric electrical measurements at the observatories of Kew, Eskdalemuir and Lerwick". Weather. 58 (1): 11–19. Bibcode:2003Wthr...58...11H. doi:10.1256/wea.239.01. S2CID 122673748.
- Takeda, M.; Yamauchi, M.; Makino, M.; Owada, T. (2011). "Initial effect of the Fukushima accident on atmospheric electricity". Geophysical Research Letters. 38 (15). Bibcode:2011GeoRL..3815811T. doi:10.1029/2011GL048511. S2CID 73530372.
- Kragh, Helge (2002). "The Vortex Atom: A Victorian Theory of Everything". Centaurus. 44 (1–2): 32–114. doi:10.1034/j.1600-0498.2002.440102.x. Retrieved 9 March 2019.
- Thomson, Wm. (1867). "On Vortex Atoms". Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. 6: 94–105. doi:10.1017/S0370164600045430.
- Silliman, Robert H. (1963). "William Thomson: Smoke Rings and Nineteenth-Century Atomism". Isis. 54 (4): 461–474. doi:10.1086/349764. JSTOR 228151. S2CID 144988108.
- Kelvin did pay off gentleman's bet with Strutt on the importance of radioactivity in the Earth. The Kelvin period does exist in the evolution of stars. They shine from gravitational energy for a while (correctly calculated by Kelvin) before fusion and the main sequence begins. Fusion was not understood until well after Kelvin's time. England, P.; Molnar, P.; Righter, F. (January 2007). "John Perry's neglected critique of Kelvin's age for the Earth: A missed opportunity in geodynamics". GSA Today. 17 (1): 4–9. Bibcode:2007GSAT...17R...4E. doi:10.1130/GSAT01701A.1.
- Thomson, William (1862). "On the Secular Cooling of the Earth". Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. XXIII: 160–161. doi:10.1017/s0080456800018512. S2CID 126038615.
- Thompson, Silvanus Phillips (January 1977). "The life of Lord Kelvin". American Journal of Physics. 45 (10): 1095. Bibcode:1977AmJPh..45.1010T. doi:10.1119/1.10735. ISBN 978-0-8284-0292-7.
- Thompson, Silvanus Phillips (January 1977). "The life of Lord Kelvin". American Journal of Physics. 45 (10): 998. Bibcode:1977AmJPh..45.1010T. doi:10.1119/1.10735. ISBN 978-0-8284-0292-7.
- Stacey, Frank D. (2000). "Kelvin's age of the Earth paradox revisited". Journal of Geophysical Research. 105 (B6): 13155–13158. Bibcode:2000JGR...10513155S. doi:10.1029/2000JB900028.
- Khramov, Yu A (31 December 1986). "Petr Nikolaevich Lebedev and his school (On the 120th anniversary of the year of his birth)". Soviet Physics Uspekhi. 29 (12): 1127–1134. doi:10.1070/PU1986v029n12ABEH003609. ISSN 0038-5670.

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Hutchison, Iain (2009). "Lord Kelvin and Liberal Unionism". Journal of Physics: Conference Series. 158 (1). IOP Publishing: 012004. Bibcode:2009JPhCS.158a2004H. doi:10.1088/1742-6596/158/1/012004. S2CID 250693895.
Aplin, K. L.; Harrison, R. G. (3 September 2013). "Lord Kelvin's atmospheric electricity measurements". History of Geo- and Space Sciences. 4 (2): 83–95. arXiv:1305.5347. Bibcode:2013HGSS....4...83A. doi:10.5194/hgss-4-83-2013. S2CID 9783512.
Aplin, Karen L. (April 2012). "Smoke emissions from industrial western Scotland in 1859 inferred from Lord Kelvin's atmospheric electricity measurements". Atmospheric Environment. 50: 373–376. Bibcode:2012AtmEn..50..373A. doi:10.1016/j.atmosenv.2011.12.053.
Harrison, R. G. (2003). "Twentieth-century atmospheric electrical measurements at the observatories of Kew, Eskdalemuir and Lerwick". Weather. 58 (1): 11–19. Bibcode:2003Wthr...58...11H. doi:10.1256/wea.239.01. S2CID 122673748.
Takeda, M.; Yamauchi, M.; Makino, M.; Owada, T. (2011). "Initial effect of the Fukushima accident on atmospheric electricity". Geophysical Research Letters. 38 (15). Bibcode:2011GeoRL..3815811T. doi:10.1029/2011GL048511. S2CID 73530372.
Kelvin did pay off gentleman's bet with Strutt on the importance of radioactivity in the Earth. The Kelvin period does exist in the evolution of stars. They shine from gravitational energy for a while (correctly calculated by Kelvin) before fusion and the main sequence begins. Fusion was not understood until well after Kelvin's time. England, P.; Molnar, P.; Righter, F. (January 2007). "John Perry's neglected critique of Kelvin's age for the Earth: A missed opportunity in geodynamics". GSA Today. 17 (1): 4–9. Bibcode:2007GSAT...17R...4E. doi:10.1130/GSAT01701A.1.
Thompson, Silvanus Phillips (January 1977). "The life of Lord Kelvin". American Journal of Physics. 45 (10): 1095. Bibcode:1977AmJPh..45.1010T. doi:10.1119/1.10735. ISBN 978-0-8284-0292-7.
Thompson, Silvanus Phillips (January 1977). "The life of Lord Kelvin". American Journal of Physics. 45 (10): 998. Bibcode:1977AmJPh..45.1010T. doi:10.1119/1.10735. ISBN 978-0-8284-0292-7.
Stacey, Frank D. (2000). "Kelvin's age of the Earth paradox revisited". Journal of Geophysical Research. 105 (B6): 13155–13158. Bibcode:2000JGR...10513155S. doi:10.1029/2000JB900028.

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Hutchison, Iain (2009). "Lord Kelvin and Liberal Unionism". Journal of Physics: Conference Series. 158 (1). IOP Publishing: 012004. Bibcode:2009JPhCS.158a2004H. doi:10.1088/1742-6596/158/1/012004. S2CID 250693895.
Trainer, Matthew (2008). "Lord Kelvin, Recipient of The John Fritz Medal in 1905". Physics in Perspective. 10: 212–223. doi:10.1007/s00016-007-0344-4. S2CID 124435108.
Aplin, K. L.; Harrison, R. G. (3 September 2013). "Lord Kelvin's atmospheric electricity measurements". History of Geo- and Space Sciences. 4 (2): 83–95. arXiv:1305.5347. Bibcode:2013HGSS....4...83A. doi:10.5194/hgss-4-83-2013. S2CID 9783512.
Harrison, R. G. (2003). "Twentieth-century atmospheric electrical measurements at the observatories of Kew, Eskdalemuir and Lerwick". Weather. 58 (1): 11–19. Bibcode:2003Wthr...58...11H. doi:10.1256/wea.239.01. S2CID 122673748.
Takeda, M.; Yamauchi, M.; Makino, M.; Owada, T. (2011). "Initial effect of the Fukushima accident on atmospheric electricity". Geophysical Research Letters. 38 (15). Bibcode:2011GeoRL..3815811T. doi:10.1029/2011GL048511. S2CID 73530372.
Silliman, Robert H. (1963). "William Thomson: Smoke Rings and Nineteenth-Century Atomism". Isis. 54 (4): 461–474. doi:10.1086/349764. JSTOR 228151. S2CID 144988108.
Thomson, William (1862). "On the Secular Cooling of the Earth". Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. XXIII: 160–161. doi:10.1017/s0080456800018512. S2CID 126038615.

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Thompson, Silvanus Phillips (1910). The life of William Thomson, Baron Kelvin of Largs. London: Macmillan. p. 723. OCLC 5894345318.
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