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William Thomson Kelvin

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• His birthday is on June26, 1824.
• The country he was born in was Belfast, United Kingdom.
• William worked at the University of Glasgow for most of his work.
• The date of his death was December17,1907.
• Lord Kelvin went to college at the university of Cambridge, peter house, University of Glasgow, Royal Belfast, and Academical Institution.
• One other job William Thomson Kelvin had was being a Mathematical Physicist and Engineer.

Descriptive words about him

William Kelvin had a long white beard but when he was younger he had hair that stopped at his ears and it was curly. his nose was a little bit big. You could barely see his mouth because his beard and mustache was hiding it.

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His accomplishments

• Is there a famous quote by your scientist or fact you found interesting about this scientist?

Well one fact that i found interesting was that his name was William Thomson when he was born, and was given the title Lord Kelvin when he got older. But one of the strange things about British lords is that they can use their title as their last name. So That's why they call him William Kelvin.

• Is there a picture of or can you draw what the scientist worked on?

I have a picture of a Kelvin scale I didn't draw it though.

Some of Kelvin's accomplishments are that he invented the Kelvin scale in 1848. They were used on thermometers to measure the ultimate extremes of hot and cold. Another Accomplishment was he developed the idea of absolute temperature which is called the Second Law of Thermodynamics. Also he developed the dynamical theory of heat.