William Thomson
1824 - 1907
- Born
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26 June 1824
College Square East, Belfast, Ireland
- Died
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17 December 1907
Netherhall, near Largs, Ayrshire, Scotland
- Nationality
- British
- Gender
- Male
- Date of election for Royal Society fellowship
- 05/06/1851
- Age at the time of election for Royal Society fellowship
- 27
- Occupation
- Mathematician and physicist
- Relationships
- Parents: James Thomson (1786–1849), professor of mathematics in the collegiate department of the Belfast Academical Institution, and Margaret Gardner (c.1790–1830), daughter of Elizabeth Patison of Kelvin Grove, west of Glasgow, Scotland. Siblings: James Thomson (FRS 1877); Anna Thomson, other of James Thomson Bottomley (FRS 1888). Nephew: James Thomson Bottomley (FRS 1888) Spouse: 1) Margaret Crum (d. 1870), daughter of cotton manufacturer and calico-printer Walter Crum (FRS 1844) (September 1852) 2) Frances Anna, sister of James Bottomley's wife.
- Catalogue
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Author of
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Unpublished extract of a letter, 'On the theory of the electric telegraph' from William Thomson to Gabriel George Stokes
Creator: William Thomson Reference number: AP/37/22 -
Unpublished paper, 'Account of researches in thermo-electricity' by William Thomson
Creator: William Thomson Reference number: AP/37/23 -
Paper, 'On the thermal effects of fluids in motion' by William Thomson and J P [James Prescott] Joule
Creator: William Thomson, James Prescott Joule Reference number: AP/38/9 -
Paper, 'On peristaltic induction of electric currents' by William Thomson
Creator: William Thomson Reference number: AP/38/24 -
Unpublished paper, 'Dynamical illustrations of the magnetic and the helicoidal rotatory effects of transparent bodies on polarized light' by William Thomson
Creator: William Thomson Reference number: AP/38/28 -
Paper, 'Thermal effects of fluids in motion' by J P [James Prescott] Joule and William Thomson
Creator: James Prescott Joule, William Thomson Reference number: AP/38/30
Referee of
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Referee's report by William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, on a paper 'An introductory memoir upon quantics' by Arthur Cayley
Creator: William Thomson Reference number: RR/2/43 -
Referee's report by William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, on a paper 'Experimental researches in electricity' [28th or 29th series] by Michael Faraday
Creator: William Thomson Reference number: RR/2/66 -
Referee's report by William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, on a paper 'On induced and other magnetic forces' by William Snow Harris
Creator: William Thomson Reference number: RR/2/92 -
Referee's explanatory note by William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, on a paper 'On induced and other magnetic forces' by William Snow Harris
Creator: William Thomson Reference number: RR/2/93 -
Referee's report by William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, on a paper 'On molecular influences.—Part I. Transmission of heat through organic structures' by John Tyndall
Creator: William Thomson Reference number: RR/2/247 -
Second referee's report by William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, on a paper 'On molecular influences.—Part I. Transmission of heat through organic structures' by John Tyndall
Creator: William Thomson Reference number: RR/2/248
Recipient of
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Letter, from Sir John Herschel to William Thomson, dated at Collingwood
Creator: John Frederick William Herschel Reference number: HS/17/349a -
Draft letter, from Sir John Herschel to William Thomson, dated at Collingwood
Creator: John Frederick William Herschel Reference number: HS/17/350a -
Letter, from Sir John Herschel to William Thomson
Creator: John Frederick William Herschel Reference number: HS/17/351 -
Copy of letter, from Sir John Herschel to William Thomson, dated at Collingwood
Creator: John Frederick William Herschel Reference number: HS/24/59 -
Copy letter, from Sir John Herschel to William Thomson, dated at Collingwood
Creator: John Frederick William Herschel Reference number: HS/24/70 -
Copy of letter, from Sir John Herschel to William Thomson
Creator: John Frederick William Herschel Reference number: HS/24/224
Most frequently corresponded with
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John Frederick William Herschel
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