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In praise of Lord Kelvin

Dec 17, 2007 Sign in to view comments

Lord Kelvin — who died 100 years ago today — was a successful inventor, a wealthy businessman and perhaps the most important physicist of the 19th century. David Saxon explains how Kelvin played key roles in everything from thermodynamics and electric lighting to transatlantic telecommunication and the age of the Sun.

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