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Lord Kelvin
(26 June 1824 ? 17 December 1907) was a British mathematician,
mathematical physicist
and engineer. Born in
Belfast
, he was
Professor of Natural Philosophy
at the
University of Glasgow
for 53 years, where he undertook significant research, including on
electricity
and the formulation of the first and second
laws of thermodynamics
. He was also the first to determine the correct value of
absolute zero
, and the
Kelvin scale
of temperature is named in his honour. Kelvin received the
Copley Medal
in 1883, served as the
president of the Royal Society
from 1890 to 1895, and in 1892 became the first British scientist to be elevated to the
House of Lords
. This photograph, taken circa 1900, shows Kelvin resting on a
binnacle
(the stand for a marine compass) of his invention, and holding a marine azimuth mirror.
Photograph credit: T. & R. Annan & Sons; restored by
Adam Cuerden
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