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100	1		_aThompson, Silvanus Phillips, _eauthor.
245	1	4	_aThe Life of William Thomson, Baron Kelvin of Largs. _nVolume 1 / _cSilvanus Phillips Thompson.
264		1	_aPlace of publication not identified : _bpublisher not identified, _c1910.
264		1	_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press
300			_a1 online resource (626 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
490	0		_aCambridge Library Collection - Physical Sciences
500			_aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 28 Feb 2017).
520			_aThe mathematician and physicist William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, (1824–1907) was one of Britain's most influential scientists, famous for his work on the first and second laws of thermodynamics and for devising the Kelvin scale of absolute temperature. Silvanus P. Thompson (1851–1916) began this biography with the co-operation of Kelvin in 1906, but the project was interrupted by Kelvin's death the following year. Thompson, himself a respected physics lecturer and scientific writer, decided that a more comprehensive biography would be needed and spent several years reading through Kelvin's papers in order to complete these two volumes, published in 1910. Volume 1 covers Kelvin's life to 1871, including his student days, his election (aged 22) as professor in Glasgow, his ground-breaking theoretical research on thermodynamics, his applied work on telegraphs including the Atlantic cable, and his involvement in a geological controversy about the age of the earth.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9781108027175
830		0	_aCambridge Library Collection - Physical Sciences.
856	4	0	_uhttps://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511910210
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