Kelvin, Lord

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1. A British physicist of the nineteenth century. He was one of the founders of the modern science of thermodynamics. His full name was William Thompson, Lord Kelvin. (See Kelvin scale.)

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Jerusalem Chamber, 52, 80 Kelvin, Lord, 9 f.

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Lord Kelvin, Lord Bryce and William James were among its distinguished lecturers, Woodrow Wilson and Philosopher Josiah Royce among those who worked for its Ph.D.

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In the course of the controversy three presidents of the Royal Society, Lord Kelvin, Lord Lister and Sir W. Huggins, expressed the opinion that the proposed exemption was not beneficial to science students.

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KELVIN, LORD, 37, 39, 44, 68, 70, 78.

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Kelvin, Lord, experiment on effects of pressure on ice, 268-270.

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