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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 70. Chapters: John Napier, William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, Colin Maclaurin, David Brewster, James Stirling, Alexander Anderson, Thomas Carlyle, Robert Simson, James Clerk Maxwell, Peter Nicholson, Thomas Chalmers, Sir John Sinclair, 1st Baronet, James Gregory, Peter Guthrie Tait, D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, Eric Temple Bell, Cargill Gilston Knott, Alexander Wilson, Alexander Macfarlane, Mary Somerville, John Playfair, Thomas Urquhart, Edward Sang, Michael Scot, Duncan Sommerville, John Leslie, James Crichton, Duncan Farquharson Gregory, Alexander Crum Brown, Hugh MacColl, Andrew Gray, Robert J. T. Bell, Abraham Robertson, Matthew Stewart, William Wallace, David Gregory, Jonathan Borwein, James Ivory, Archibald Smith, Hector Munro Macdonald, John Craig, Colin Mackenzie, George Chrystal, Timothy Pont, Robert Alexander Rankin, James Bassantin, George Sinclair, John Wishart, Hyman Levy, David Wallace, Hugh Blackburn, Andrew Forsyth, Sheila Scott Macintyre, John Keill, Robert Forsyth Scott, Robert Hamilton, Walter Brown, John Aitchison, John Howard, Thomas Muir, Alasdair Urquhart, James Gray, William Esson, Hugh Sempill, John Mackintosh Howie, James Jardine, Ken Ritchie, James Key Caird, Henry Jack, Thomas Galloway, John Adair, Horatio Scott Carslaw, Thomas Murray MacRobert, George Brown, Charles Terrot. Excerpt: William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin OM, GCVO, PC, PRS, PRSE, (26 June 1824 - 17 December 1907) was a mathematical physicist and engineer. At the University of Glasgow he did important work in the mathematical analysis of electricity and formulation of the first and second Laws of Thermodynamics, and did much to unify the emerging discipline of physics in its modern form. He worked closely with Mathematics professor, Hugh Blackburn, at the University in his work. He also had a career as an electric telegraph engineer and inven...
