List of things named after Lord Kelvin
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin was a prolific scientific scholar who gave his name to several things.
Science
- The SI unit of temperature, kelvin
Physics
- Joule–Thomson effect
- Joule–Thomson (Kelvin) coefficient
- Kelvin's circulation theorem
- Kelvin–Helmholtz instability
- Kelvin–Helmholtz mechanism
- Kelvin–Planck statement of the 2nd law of thermodynamics
- Kelvin–Varley divider
- Kelvin bridge
- Kelvin effect, see either Thomson effect or Kelvin equation
- Kelvin equation
- Kelvin–Voigt material, also:
- Kelvin probe force microscope
- Kelvin sensing
- Kelvin water dropper
- Kelvin wave
- Thomson bridge, see Kelvin bridge
- Thomson effect, Thomson–Seebeck effect: see Thermoelectric effect
Pure and applied mathematics
Other
- The Kelvin Building in the University of Glasgow
- Kelvin Gold Medal
- The town of Kelvin, Arizona.
- The Kelvin Club in Melbourne, Australia
See also
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