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Thomson , Benjamin — See Rumford, Benjamin Thomson, Count … Scientists
Rumford Prize — Not to be confused with the Rumford Medal In 1796, Benjamin Thompson, known as Count Rumford, made two separate gifts of $5,000 each to the Royal Society of London and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences to enable them to give awards every… … Wikipedia
James Prescott Joule — Infobox Scientist name = James Prescott Joule image width = 200px caption = James Joule English physicist birth date = birth date|1818|12|24 birth place = Salford, Lancashire, England death date = death date and age|1889|10|11|1818|12|24 death… … Wikipedia
Mechanical equivalent of heat — For other uses, see Conservation of energy. In the history of science, the mechanical equivalent of heat was a concept that had an important part in the development and acceptance of the conservation of energy and the establishment of the science … Wikipedia
History of Physics — History of Physics † Catholic Encyclopedia ► History of Physics The subject will be treated under the following heads: I. A Glance at Ancient Physics; II. Science and Early Christian Scholars; III. A Glance at Arabian Physics; IV.… … Catholic encyclopedia
Timeline of thermodynamics, statistical mechanics, and random processes — A timeline of events related to thermodynamics, statistical mechanics, and random processes. Ancient times *c. 3000 BC The ancients viewed heat as that related to fire. The ancient Egyptians viewed heat as related to origin mythologies. One… … Wikipedia
History of heat — In the history of science, the history of heat traces its origins to the first hominids to make fire and to speculate on its operation and meaning to modern day particle physicists who study the sub atomic nature of heat. In short, the phenomenon … Wikipedia
List of experiments — See also: timeline of scientific experiments and list of famous discoveries The following is a list of historically important scientific experiments. A historic scientific experiment is one which demonstrates something of great scientific… … Wikipedia
Humphry Davy — Sir Humphry Davy, Bt Portrait by Henry Howard, 1803 Born … Wikipedia
thermodynamics — thermodynamicist, n. /therr moh duy nam iks/, n. (used with a sing. v.) the science concerned with the relations between heat and mechanical energy or work, and the conversion of one into the other: modern thermodynamics deals with the properties … Universalium
