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Dr. Frank Bottomley - Nature
Frank Bottomley, in NATURE of February 16, p. 212? Sir Richard states that Frank Bottomley's stepmother was “the widowed sister of Lord Kelvin”. Frank Bottomley's father, being a son of Lord ...
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The Belfast Memorial to Lord Kelvin - Nature
THE statue of Lord Kelvin which has been subscribed for by the citizens of Belfast was unveiled by Sir Joseph Larnior, M.P., F.R.S., on Thursday last, June 19, in the presence of a large and ...
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Kelvin on the Origin of the Earth - Nature
IT is interesting to know that Lord Kelvin held similar views though for different reasons, and especially that he considers also that a porous structure of the Earth would account for a variety ...
Tides at Port Darwin - Nature
At Port Darwin the mean spring range is about 24 feet, but the range is sometimes as much as 30 feet. A tide gauge of Lord Kelvin's pattern was set up here by the South Australian Government ...
Atomic Transmutation - Nature
Ernest Rutherford, as he then was, at the 1907 meeting, to which contributions were made by Lord Kelvin, Sir Oliver Lodge and Sir William Ramsay.
The Anniversary of the Royal Society - Nature
YESTERDAY being St. Andrew's Day the anniversary meeting of the Royal Society was held in their apartments at Burlington House. The auditors of the Treasurer's accounts having read their report ...
Geological Chronology 1 - Nature
If the general body of geologists, influenced by the high authority of Lord Kelvin, have tried to adapt themselves to this narrow limitation, it has not been without reluctance, and some sturdy ...
Marine Microthermograms and the Influence of Icebergs on the Temperature of the Sea - Nature
On account of the difficulty of the experiments, and the fact that well-known authorities on navigation (including Lord Kelvin) had reported that temperature measurements were likely to be uncertain ...
Centenary of the Nautical Magazine - Nature
THE Nautical Magazine this year commemorates its centenary, and the January issue is therefore devoted mainly to a review of the progress of nautical matters during the last hundred years. The ...
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British physicist and engineer
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, was a British mathematician, mathematical physicist and engineer born in Belfast. He was the professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of... Wikipedia