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  1. BornWilliam Thomson · 26 June 1824 · Belfast, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
    Died17 December 1907 (aged 83) · Largs, Scotland
    Political partyLiberal (1865–1886) · Liberal Unionist (from 1886)
    SpousesMargaret Crum · (m. 1852; died 1870) · Frances Blandy (m. 1874⁠–⁠1907)
    Lord Kelvin: The Genius of Energy
    Lord Kelvin: The Genius of Energy
    How Kelvin Unified Physics and Changed the World
    How Kelvin Unified Physics and Changed the World
    Overview

    William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin (26 June 1824 – 17 December 1907 ), was a British mathematician, mathematical physicist and engineer. Born in Belfast, he was the professor of Natural Philosophy at the … See more

    Early life and work

    Thomson's father, James Thomson, was a teacher of mathematics and engineering at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution and the son of an Ulster Scots farmer. James Thomson married Margaret Gardner in 1817 and, o… See more

    Transatlantic cable

    Though eminent in the academic field, Thomson was obscure to the general public. In September 1852, he married childhood sweetheart Margaret Crum, daughter of Walter Crum; but her health broke dow… See more

    Other contributions

    Over the period 1855 to 1867, Thomson collaborated with Peter Guthrie Tait on a textbook that founded the study of mechanics first on the mathematics of kinematics, the description of motion without reg… See more

     
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