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  1. William John Macquorn Rankine FRSE FRS ( / ˈræŋkɪn /; 5 July 1820 – 24 December 1872) was a Scottish mathematician and physicist. He was a founding contributor, with Rudolf Clausius and William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), to the science of thermodynamics, particularly focusing on its First Law.

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  3. Jul 1, 2024 · William John Macquorn Rankine was a Scottish engineer and physicist and one of the founders of the science of thermodynamics, particularly in reference to steam-engine theory. Trained as a civil engineer under Sir John Benjamin MacNeill, Rankine was appointed to the Queen Victoria chair of civil.

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  4. As well as holding the presidency in 1857-59, he was elected for a second term in 1869-70. Rankine's study of the applications of mathematics began quite early in his career as an engineer. While an apprentice engineer he made a mathematical analysis of the cooling of the earth (1840).

  5. May 23, 2018 · RANKINE, WILLIAM JOHN MACQUORN (b. Edinburgh, Scotland, 5 July 1820; d. Glasgow, Scotland, 24 December 1872), engineering, engineering education, physical science. Rankine was the son of David Rankine, an army lieutenant, and Barbara Grahame. Another son died in childhood.

  6. Feb 26, 2020 · William John Macquorn Rankine (Edinburgh, July 5, 1820 - Glasgow, December 24, 1872) was a Scottish engineer and physicist. He had very different interests; in his youth he was interested in botany, music theory and number theory and in his later years in mathematics and technology.

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    Rankine was a founding contributor, with Rudolf Clausius and William Thomson (1st Baron Kelvin), to the "pure" science of thermodynamics. Rankine developed a complete theory of the steam engine and indeed of all heat engines.

  8. William J.M. Rankine, also known as Macquorn Rankine, was one of the greatest scientists and engineers to be born in Scotland, but unlike his predecessor James Watt or his contemporaries Lord Kelvin and James Clerk Maxwell he is relatively unknown.

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