Kelvin
Glasgow's flowing waters
Kelvin is a Scottish surname and given name, most notably associated with the physicist William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, who developed the absolute temperature scale.
Kelvin was skeptical about X-rays when they were first discovered.
The name also refers to a river in Glasgow. (Lowercase kelvin is the temperature unit.)
scientist
Scientist of matter and energy
- CambridgeUniversity city, two countries
- thermodynamicsScience of heat-energy relationships
- VictorianOf a prim era
- peerageSystem of noble ranks
physicist
Scientist of matter and energy
- CambridgeUniversity city, two countries
- thermodynamicsScience of heat-energy relationships
- VictorianOf a prim era
- temperature unitsCelsius, Fahrenheit, centigrade
- temperaturehot, cold, warm, cool, freezing
- Heat & Temperaturethermometer, degree, Fahrenheit, Celsius, temperature
- 1800s FiguresDarwin, Marx, Dickens, Beethoven, Napoleon
- EponymsDarwinian, Alzheimer's disease, Freudian slip, cardigan, Parkinson's disease
- heatheat transfer, thermal energy, heatwave, radiation, convection