William (Thomson), 1st Baron Kelvin of Largs, physicist, mathematician, engineer and inventor, was buried in the nave of Westminster Abbey. He was born on 26th June 1824 in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

From thermodynamics to refrigeration and the development of radio, Lord Kelvin’s contributions to science were many and varied Nineteenth-century scientist William Thomson, Lord Kelvin ...

Kelvin, whose real name was William Thomson, became interested in tides in a roundabout way, as explained in a recent IEEE Spectrum article. He’d made plenty of money on his patents related to ...