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Kelvin   /kˈɛlvən/  /kˈɛlvɪn/   Listen
Kelvin

noun
(pl. kelvin, kelvins)
1.
The basic unit of thermodynamic temperature adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites.  Synonym: K.
2.
British physicist who invented the Kelvin scale of temperature and pioneered undersea telegraphy (1824-1907).  Synonyms: First Baron Kelvin, William Thompson.



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... great question to which these observations upon the existing schools of geology had led. The most distinguished physicist of the age, then Sir William Thomson, now Lord Kelvin, and Huxley's immediate successor in the Presidential Chair of the Royal Society, had stated that the English school of geology had assumed an impossible age for the earth. By physical reasonings, Thomson stated that he was able to prove "That the existing state of things on the ...
— Thomas Henry Huxley; A Sketch Of His Life And Work • P. Chalmers Mitchell

... the laudable custom among members of that eminent body in making known to each other the latest scientific novelties." And Sylvester would never forget the reaction of his brilliant friend Sir William Thomson (later Lord Kelvin) upon being handed the same model in the Athenaeum Club. After Sir William had operated it for a time, Sylvester reached for the model, but he was rebuffed by the exclamation "No! I have not had nearly enough of it—it is the most beautiful thing ...
— Kinematics of Mechanisms from the Time of Watt • Eugene S. Ferguson

... The "people who fail" take their revenge, as we have recently had occasion to observe, by ignoring all the rest of a man's work and glibly labelling him a more popularizer. If the falsehood were not too glaring, they would say the same of Faraday and Helmholtz and Kelvin. ...
— Discourses - Biological and Geological Essays • Thomas H. Huxley

... Kwan-tsz's economic philosophy. Thus generation after generation of statesmen and scholars kept in steady touch with one another, exactly as our modern scientists of the first rank, each as a link, form an unbroken intimate chain from Newton down to Lord Kelvin, outside which pale the ordinary layman stands a comparative ...
— Ancient China Simplified • Edward Harper Parker

... Lord Kelvin was astonished at the preachers and teachers who are trying to apply the doctrine of evolution to the fundamentals of the faith. ...
— The Church, the Schools and Evolution • J. E. (Judson Eber) Conant


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