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Born December 24, 1818 • Salford • England
Died October 11, 1889 (aged 70) • Sale • England
Awards And Honors Copley Medal (1870)
Notable Works “On the Production of Heat by Voltaic Electricity”
Subjects Of Study Joule-Thomson effect • Joule’s law • conservation of energy • energy • heat • mechanical equivalent of heat

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Sir George Biddell Airy
British astronomer
Kelvin, William Thomson, Baron
William Thomson, Baron Kelvin
Scottish engineer, mathematician, and physicist
Cavendish, Henry
Henry Cavendish
British physicist
J.J. Thomson
J.J. Thomson
British physicist
Lord Rayleigh, engraving by R. Cottot.
Lord Rayleigh
British scientist
Sir William Bragg
Sir William Bragg
British physicist
Sir Charles Frank
English physicist
James Chadwick
James Chadwick
British physicist
Charles Wheatstone.
Sir Charles Wheatstone
British physicist
Helmholtz.
Hermann von Helmholtz
German scientist and philosopher
Max Born
Max Born
German physicist
Sir Benjamin Thompson, count von Rumford
American-British physicist
Sir William Robert Grove
British physicist
Michael Faraday
Michael Faraday
British physicist and chemist
Ernest Rutherford
Ernest Rutherford
British physicist
P.A.M. Dirac
P.A.M. Dirac
English physicist
Bragg, Sir Lawrence
Sir Lawrence Bragg
British physicist
Peierls, Sir Rudolf Ernst; Dirac, P.A.M.; Pauli, Wolfgang
Sir Rudolf Ernst Peierls
British physicist
Peter Higgs
Peter Higgs
British physicist
Sir George Gabriel Stokes, 1st Baronet
British mathematician and physicist

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