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    James Prescott Joule FRS FRSE (/dʒuːl/; 24 December 1818 – 11 October 1889) was an English physicist, mathematician and brewer, born in Salford, Lancashire...
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  • physicist James Prescott Joule (1818–1889). In terms of SI base units and in terms of SI derived units with special names, the joule is defined as One joule can...
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  • named after James Prescott Joule and William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, who discovered it in 1852. It followed upon earlier work by Joule on Joule expansion...
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  • Joule effect and Joule's law are any of several different physical effects discovered or characterized by English physicist James Prescott Joule. These...
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    (compared to conventional heat processing) due to higher resistance. James Prescott Joule first published in December 1840, an abstract in the Proceedings...
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    the 19th century. Its independent and simultaneous discovery by James Prescott Joule and by Julius Robert von Mayer led to a priority dispute. Benjamin...
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    of intermolecular forces. This type of expansion is named after James Prescott Joule who used this expansion, in 1845, in his study for the mechanical...
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  • unit of energy is the same as the unit of work – the joule (J), named in honour of James Prescott Joule and his experiments on the mechanical equivalent of...
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  • (surname) James Prescott Joule (1818–1889), English physicist and namesake of the term joule 12759 Joule, an asteroid Joule (crater), on the Moon Joule Assets...
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    ISBN 9780486138909. J. P. Joule (1884), "Matter, Living Force, and Heat", The Scientific Papers of James Prescott Joule, The Physical Society of London...
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