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Kelvin : life, labours and legacy / edited by Raymond Flood, Mark McCartney, and Andrew Whitaker.

Title
  1. Kelvin : life, labours and legacy / edited by Raymond Flood, Mark McCartney, and Andrew Whitaker.
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  1. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2008.

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Additional authors
  1. Flood, Raymond.
  2. McCartney, Mark, 1967-
  3. Whitaker, Andrew, 1946-
Description
  1. xii, 358 p. : ill,; 25 cm.
Summary
  1. This work contains a collection of chapters, authored by leading experts, which cover the life and wide-ranging scientific contributions made by William Thomson, Lord Kelvin (1824-1907).
Uniform title
  1. University press scholarship online.
Subject
  1. Kelvin, William Thomson, Baron, 1824-1907
  2. Physicists > Great Britain
  3. Physics > History > 19th century
  4. Thermodynamica
  5. Natuurkundigen
Contents
  1. William Thomson : an introductory biography / Mark McCartney -- Educating William : Belfast, Glasgow, and Cambridge / Alex D.D. Craik -- On the early work of William Thomason : mathematical physics and methodology in the 1840s / I. Grattan-Guinness -- James Thomson and the culture of a Victorian engineer / Peter Bowler -- Fifty-eight years of friendship : Kelvin and Stokes / Alastair Wood -- Kelvin and Fitzgerlad : great Irish physicists / Denis Weaire -- Concepts and models of the magnetic field / John Roche -- 'A dynamical form of mechanical effect' : Thomson's thermodynamics / Iwan Rhys Morus -- Kelvin and engineering / Bernard Crossland -- William Thomson's determinations of the age of the earth / Patrick N. Wyse Jackson -- Thomson and Tait : the Treatise on natural philosophy / Raymond Flood -- Kelvin on atoms and molecules / Elizabeth Garber -- Kelvin and the development of science in Meiji, Japan / Colin Latimer -- Kelvin, Maxwell, Einstein and the ether : who was right about what? / C.W. Francis Everitt -- Kelvin and statistical mechanics / Oliver Penrose -- Kelvin : the legacy / Andrew Whitaker.
Owning institution
  1. Harvard Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]-345) and index.
Processing action (note)
  1. committed to retain