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physicist low temperature, vacuum flask inventor George Dickie: 1812–1882 botanist specialist in algae: Alexander Dickson: 1836–1887 botanist morphological botanist: David Drysdale: 1877–1946 mathematician James Alfred Ewing: 1855–1935 physicist, engineer discoverer of hysteresis: William Fairbairn: 1789–1874 engineer structural: Hugh ...
Joseph Black (16 April 1728 – 6 December 1799) was a British physicist and chemist, known for his discoveries of magnesium, latent heat, specific heat, and carbon dioxide. He was Professor of Anatomy and Chemistry at the University of Glasgow for 10 years from 1756, and then Professor of Medicine and Chemistry at the University of Edinburgh ...
Maxwell’s thermodynamic surface is an 1874 sculpture [1] made by Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell (1831–1879). This model provides a three-dimensional space of the various states of a fictitious substance with water-like properties. [2] This plot has coordinates volume (x), entropy (y), and energy (z).
William John Macquorn Rankine FRSE FRS (/ ˈ r æ ŋ k ɪ n /; 5 July 1820 – 24 December 1872) was a Scottish mathematician and physicist.He was a founding contributor, with Rudolf Clausius and William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), to the science of thermodynamics, particularly focusing on its First Law.
Peter Guthrie Tait FRSE (28 April 1831 – 4 July 1901) was a Scottish mathematical physicist and early pioneer in thermodynamics.He is best known for the mathematical physics textbook Treatise on Natural Philosophy, which he co-wrote with Lord Kelvin, and his early investigations into knot theory.
Charles Thomson Rees Wilson (14 February 1869 – 15 November 1959) was a Scottish physicist and meteorologist who shared the 1927 Nobel Prize in Physics with Arthur Compton for his invention of the cloud chamber. [1] [2]
Balfour Stewart (1 November 1828 – 19 December 1887) was a Scottish physicist and meteorologist. His studies in the field of radiant heat led to him receiving the Rumford Medal of the Royal Society in 1868. In 1859 he was appointed director of Kew Observatory.
This equilibrium is also asymptotically stable: after a local, temporary perturbation of the outside temperature, it will go back to its uniform state, in line with the second law of thermodynamics). Then, the temperature of the bottom plane is increased slightly yielding a flow of thermal energy conducted through the liquid.