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James Prescott Joule (/ dʒ uː l /; [1] [2] [a] 24 December 1818 – 11 October 1889) was an English physicist. Joule studied the nature of heat and discovered its relationship to mechanical work . This led to the law of conservation of energy , which in turn led to the development of the first law of thermodynamics .
James Prescott Joule [32] 1818–1889 British (English) Energy [33] joule (J) Antoine Henri Becquerel [34] 1852–1908 French Radioactivity: becquerel (Bq) Nikola Tesla [35] 1856–1943 Serbian [note 2]-American Magnetic flux density [36] tesla (T) Heinrich Rudolf Hertz [37] 1857–1894 German Frequency [38] hertz (Hz) Rolf Maximilian Sievert ...
Lord Kelvin, who had extended the concept of absolute zero from gases to all substances in 1848, drew upon the engineering theory of Lazare Carnot, Sadi Carnot, and Émile Clapeyron–as well as the experimentation of James Prescott Joule on the interchangeability of mechanical, chemical, thermal, and electrical forms of work—to formulate the ...
The James Joule Medal and Prize is awarded by the Institute of Physics. It was established in 2008, [1] and was named in honour of James Prescott Joule, British physicist and brewer. The award is made for distinguished contributions to applied physics. The medal is silver and is accompanied by a prize of £1000.
It was possible for a scientist to "earn praise but not pudding," he wrote. Since its birth, the Royal Society of London had been a club of gentlemanly amateurs, though some of whom were the very best in their fields, people like Charles Darwin and James Prescott Joule. But the Society reformed itself in the 1830s and 1840s.
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1840 – James Prescott Joule formulates Joule's Law (sometimes called the Joule-Lenz law) quantifying the amount of heat produced in a circuit as proportional to the product of the time duration, the resistance, and the square of the current passing through it.
1880: James Prescott Joule LLD DCL FRS 'for having established, after most laborious research, the true relation between heat, electricity and mechanical work, thus affording to the engineer a sure guide in the application of science to industrial pursuits'