In 1874, it was extended by the British physicists James Clerk Maxwell and William Thomson with a set of electromagnetic units.

* 1907 – William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, Irish-born physicist ( b. 1824 )

William Thomson ( Lord Kelvin ) amalgamated all of these laws into the laws of thermodynamics, which aided in the rapid development of explanations of chemical processes by Rudolf Clausius, Josiah Willard Gibbs, and Walther Nernst.

* 1824 – William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, Irish physicist and engineer ( d. 1907 )

These include Richard Kirwan, John Smeaton, Henry Moyes, John Michell, Pieter Camper, R. E. Raspe, John Baskerville, Thomas Beddoes, John Wyatt, William Thomson, Cyril V. Jackson, Jean-André Deluc, John Wilkinson, John Ash, Samuel More, Robert Bage, James Brindley, Ralph Griffiths, John Roebuck, Thomas Percival, Joseph Black, James Hutton, Benjamin Franklin, Joseph Banks, William Herschel, Daniel Solander, John Warltire, George Fordyce, Alexander Blair, Samuel Parr, Louis Joseph d ' Albert d ' Ailly, the seventh Duke of Chaulnes, Barthélemy Faujas de Saint-Fond, Grossart de Virly ,, Johann Gottling.

File: Lord Kelvin photograph. jpg | William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin ( 1824-1907 ): major figure in the history of thermodynamics, helped develop law of conservation of energy, studied wave motion and vortex motion in hydrodynamics and produced a dynamical theory of heat, formulated of the first and second laws of thermodynamics

* Thomson, William P. L. ( 2008 ) The New History of Orkney.

His estimate that the age of the Earth allowed gradual evolution was disputed by William Thomson ( later awarded the title Lord Kelvin ), who calculated that it had cooled in less than 100 million years.

The first and second laws of thermodynamics emerged simultaneously in the 1850s, primarily out of the works of William Rankine, Rudolf Clausius, and William Thomson ( Lord Kelvin ).

* 1887: William Thomson ( later Baron Kelvin ) of Belfast, Ireland introduces the multicellular voltmeter.

* June 26 – William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, Irish-born physicist and engineer ( d. 1907 )

In 1850, Lord Kelvin, then known as William Thomson, distinguished between two magnetic fields now denoted and.

* The Tides By Sir William Thomson ( Lord Kelvin )

The most sensitive form, the Thompson or mirror galvanometer, was invented by William Thomson ( Lord Kelvin ) and patented by him in 1858.

This four terminal measurement technique is called Kelvin sensing, after William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, who invented the Kelvin bridge in 1861 to measure very low resistances.

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* – Alembic Club reprint with some of Dalton's papers, along with some by William Hyde Wollaston and Thomas Thomson

The effect was first discovered by William Thomson ( more commonly known as Lord Kelvin ) in 1856, but he was unable to lower the electrical resistance of anything by more than 5 %.

William Thomson ( or Lord Kelvin ) first discovered ordinary magnetoresistance in 1856.

By 1880, William Thomson ( lord Kelvin ) tried to propose a gyrostat ( tope ) to the British Navy.

In 1890, a five-member International Niagara Commission headed by Sir William Thomson among other distinguished scientists deliberated on the expansion of Niagara hydroelectric capacity based on seventeen proposals, but could not select any as the best combined project for hydraulic development and distribution.

Notable Presidents of IEEE and its founding organizations include Elihu Thomson ( AIEE, 1889 – 1890 ), Alexander Graham Bell ( AIEE, 1891 – 1892 ), Charles Proteus Steinmetz ( AIEE, 1901 – 1902 ), Lee De Forest ( IRE, 1930 ), Frederick E. Terman ( IRE, 1941 ), William R. Hewlett ( IRE, 1954 ), Ernst Weber ( IRE, 1959 ; IEEE, 1963 ), and Ivan Getting ( IEEE, 1978 ).

Sir William Crookes, OM, FRS ( 17 June 1832 – 4 April 1919 ) was a British chemist and physicist who attended the Royal College of Chemistry, London, and worked on spectroscopy.

Vice Admiral William Bligh, FRS, RN ( 9 September 1754 – 7 December 1817 ) was an officer of the British Royal Navy and a colonial administrator.

William Ewart Gladstone, FRS, FSS ( 29 December 1809 – 19 May 1898 ) was a British Liberal statesman.

Sir Frederick William Herschel, KH, FRS ( Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel ; 15 November 1738 – 25 August 1822 ) was a German-born British astronomer, technical expert, and composer.

William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, PC, FRS ( 15 March 1779 – 24 November 1848 ) was a British Whig statesman who served as Home Secretary ( 1830 – 1834 ) and Prime Minister ( 1834 and 1835 – 1841 ).

Sir John Frederick William Herschel, 1st Baronet, KH, FRS ( 7 March 1792 – 11 May 1871 )

William George Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong CB, FRS ( 26 November 1810 – 27 December 1900 ) was an effective Tyneside industrialist who founded the Armstrong Whitworth manufacturing empire.

Sir William Hunter McCrea FRS ( 13 December 1904, Dublin – 25 April 1999 ) was an English astronomer and mathematician.

Sir William Henry Perkin, FRS ( 12 March 1838 – 14 July 1907 ) was an English chemist best known for his discovery, at the age of 18, of the first aniline dye, mauveine.

William Hyde Wollaston FRS ( 6 August 1766 – 22 December 1828 ) was an English chemist and physicist who is famous for discovering two chemical elements and for developing a way to process platinum ore.

William Hudson ( engineer ) | William Hudson KBE FRS Commissioner Snowy Mountains Hydro Electric Authority 1949-1967.

William Stukeley FRS, FRCP, FSA ( 7 November 1687 – 3 March 1765 ) was an English antiquarian who pioneered the archaeological investigation of the prehistoric monuments of Stonehenge and Avebury, work for which he has been remembered as " probably ... the most important of the early forerunners of the discipline of archaeology ".

William Whewell FRS FGS, ( ; 24 May 1794 – 6 March 1866 ) was an English polymath, scientist, Anglican priest, philosopher, theologian, and historian of science.

William Prout FRS ( 15 January 1785 – 9 April 1850 ) was an English chemist, physician, and natural theologian.

William Edward Forster PC, FRS ( 11 July 1818 – 6 April 1886 ) was an English industrialist, philanthropist and Liberal Party statesman.

William Matthew Flinders Petrie, FRS ( 3 June 1853 – 28 July 1942 ), commonly known as Flinders Petrie, was an English Egyptologist and a pioneer of systematic methodology in archaeology and preservation of artifacts.

William Hunter FRS ( 23 May 1718 – 30 March 1783 ) was a Scottish anatomist and physician.

William Jones, FRS ( 1675 – 3 July 1749 ) was a Welsh mathematician, most noted for his proposal for the use of the symbol π ( the Greek letter pi ) to represent the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter.

Lieutenant-General Sir William Boog Leishman FRS ( 6 November 1865 – 2 June 1926 ) was a Scottish pathologist and British Army medical officer.

* Graves Chamney Haughton ( 1817 – 27 ) FRS previously of Fort William College, Calcutta

William Kingdon Clifford FRS ( 4 May 1845 – 3 March 1879 ) was an English mathematician and philosopher.

William Cullen FRS FRSE FRCPE FPSG ( 15 April 1710 – 5 February 1790 ) was a Scottish physician, chemist and agriculturalist, and one of the most important professors at the Edinburgh Medical School, during its heyday as the leading center of medical education in the English-speaking world.

John William Ward, 1st Earl of Dudley, PC, FRS ( 9 August 1781 – 6 March 1833 ), known as the Honourable John Ward from 1788 to 1823 and as the 4th Viscount Dudley and Ward from 1823 to 1827, was a British politician.