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    William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin was an Irish-born, British mathematician, mathematical physicist and engineer. Born in Belfast, he was the professor...
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  • William, Billy or Bill Thomson may refer to: William Thomson (American soldier) (1727–1796), American militia captain in Capture of Savannah William Taylour...
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    Robert William Thomson PRSSA FRSE (29 June 1822 – 8 March 1873) was a Scottish inventor known for inventing the refillable fountain pen and the pneumatic...
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  • The vortex theory of the atom was a 19th-century attempt by William Thomson (later Lord Kelvin) to explain why the atoms recently discovered by chemists...
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    William Thomson, FRS, FRGS (11 February 1819 – 25 December 1890) was an English church leader, Archbishop of York from 1862 until his death. He was born...
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  • William Thomson Sloper (December 13, 1883 − May 1, 1955) was an American stockbroker and survivor of the sinking of the RMS Titanic. Sloper, who was 28...
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  • Lieutenant General Sir William Montgomerie Thomson KCMG CB MC (1877–1963) was a senior British Army officer who became military governor of Baku in 1918...
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    particles, with Francis William Aston, were the first use of mass spectrometry and led to the development of the mass spectrograph. Thomson was awarded the 1906...
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  • In thermodynamics, the Joule–Thomson effect (also known as the Joule–Kelvin effect or Kelvin–Joule effect) describes the temperature change of a real...
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  • William Thomson (1760 – November 1806) was an English mineralogist, who used the name Guglielmo Thomson in Italy in later life. He died in Palermo at...
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