Thomson, William
Born Belfast, (Northern Ireland), 26 June 1824
Died Netherhall near Largs, (Strathclyde), Scotland, 17 December 1907
Selected References
Buchwald, Jed Z. (1976). “Thomson, Sir William.” In Dictionary of Scientific Biography, edited by Charles Coulston Gillispie. Vol. 13, pp. 374–388. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
Garnett, William and Hugo Munro Ross (1911). “Kelvin, William Thomson.” In Encyclopaedia Britannica. 11th ed. Vol. 15, pp. 721–723. New York: Encyclopaedia Britannica.
Russell, Alexander (1938). Lord Kelvin. London: Blackie and Son.
Smith, Crosbie and M. Norton Wise (1989). Energy and Empire: A Biographical Study of Lord Kelvin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Young, A. P. (1944). Lord Kelvin, Physicist, Mathematician, Engineer. London: Longmans, Green.
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