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 and engineering
- The SI unit of temperature, kelvin
- Kelvin, a unit of measure for color temperature
- Kelvin balance
- Joule–Thomson effect
- Joule–Thomson (Kelvin) coefficient
- Kelvin's circulation theorem
- Kelvin–Helmholtz instability
- Kelvin–Helmholtz mechanism
- Kelvin–Helmholtz luminosity
- Kelvin-Helmholtz time scale
- Kelvin–Planck statement of the 2nd law of thermodynamics
- Kelvin–Varley divider
- Kelvin's balls
- Kelvin bridge
- Kelvin effect, see either Thomson effect or Kelvin equation
- Kelvin equation
- Kelvin–Voigt material, also:
- Kelvin material
- Kelvin solid
- Kelvin probe force microscope
- Kelvin sensing
- Kelvin water dropper
- Kelvin wave
- Thomson bridge, see Kelvin bridge
- Thomson effect, Thomson–Seebeck effect: see Thermoelectric effect
- Kelvin Gold Medal, British engineering prize named after Lord Kelvin
- Kelvin Medal and Prize, British physics prize named after Lord Kelvin
- Zero Kelvin
- Kelvin–Stokes theorem
- Kelvin functions
- Kelvin problemKelvin conjecture/Kelvin structure/Kelvin foam
- Kelvin transform
Places
Other
- The Kelvin Building in the University of Glasgow
- SS Lord Kelvin, a cable ship
- Kelvin High School, public high school in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
- 8003 Kelvin
See also
- Kelvin (disambiguation)
- All pages with titles containing Kelvin
References
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- "Explain Origin of All County Towns". Turtle Mountain Star. September 5, 1940. p. 7. Retrieved 2 May 2015.
- "Promontorium Kelvin". Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature. USGS Astrogeology Research Program., accessed September 23, 2017
- "Promontorium Kelvin". Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature. USGS Astrogeology Research Program.
- Sessional Papers of the Dominion of Canada. 53. Parliament of Canada. 1918. p. 133. Retrieved 2013-10-31.
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