William John Macquorn Rankine FRSE FRS (/ˈræŋkɪn/; 5 July 1820 – 24 December 1872) was a Scottish mathematician and physicist. He was a founding contributor...

Rankine is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: William Rankine (1820–1872), Scottish engineer and physicist Rankine body an elliptical...

was introduced by the 19th-century Scottish engineer and physicist William Rankine, although it has links to the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle's...

moves between a heat source and heat sink. The Rankine cycle is named after William John Macquorn Rankine, a Scottish polymath professor at Glasgow University...

(also flattened catenary, was defined by William Rankine as transformed catenary and thus sometimes called Rankine curve) is a catenary curve, but of a special...

of fluid dynamics, a Rankine half body is a feature of fluid flow discovered by Scottish physicist and engineer William Rankine that is formed when a...

modern science. The first thermodynamic textbook was written in 1859 by William Rankine, originally trained as a physicist and a civil and mechanical engineering...

then elaborated over the next decade by Hermann von Helmholtz and William Rankine. The idea of the heat death of the universe derives from discussion...

Glasgow professor of natural philosophy William Thomson and his ally in the engineering science William Rankine began to replace the older language of...

of an infinitely old universe; this paradox was later extended by William Rankine. In final publication, Thomson retreated from a radical departure and...