Thomson, William [Baron Kelvin of Largs] (1824-1907)

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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 4055. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

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Born in Belfast, Ireland, became professor of physics at Glasgow, studied thermodynamics, proposed an absolute scale of temperature, measured by the Kelvin temperature scale. In parallel with HERMANN VON HELMHOLTZ, he formulated a theory of stellar evolution, in which a star radiated the energy that it released by progressive gravitational contraction. The lifetime of a star from this theory (the...

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