. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences. Science; Natural history; Natural history. SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 25 Lord Kelvin (Formerly Sir William Thompson.) If, a month ago, the question had been asked, "Who is the most eminent living physicist?" that distinction would unhesitatingly have been accorded to the subject of this sketch. Prior to 1S92 he had achieved his great fame as a scientific investigator under the more familiar title of Sir William Thompson. He earned that fame by his successful labors in many departments of scientific inquiry. Perha
. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences. Science; Natural history; Natural history. SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 25 Lord Kelvin (Formerly Sir William Thompson.) If, a month ago, the question had been asked, "Who is the most eminent living physicist?" that distinction would unhesitatingly have been accorded to the subject of this sketch. Prior to 1S92 he had achieved his great fame as a scientific investigator under the more familiar title of Sir William Thompson. He earned that fame by his successful labors in many departments of scientific inquiry. Perhaps his most useful work consisted in reducing to mathematical formulae the re- lations between heat, electric- ity and magnetism on the one hand, and the mechanical work these agencies are capa- ble of performing on the other. The published results of ins laborious investigations in this department of science have been of great service in the mechanical arts, as precise data were thus furnished for the development of electric power, and its perfect control for practical use. Lord Kelvin also made re- markable discoveries in the mathematical theories of elas- ticity, vortex motion, capil- lary attraction, and molecular energy. In short, his re- searches, always fruitful, ranged through a wide domain of theoretical and practical physics. Born in 1824, he was educated under the eye of his father. Dr. James Thompson, who held the chair of mathematics in the University of Clas gOW, but graduated at Cambridge as second wrangler. lie then siieiit but graduated at Cambridge as secoinl wrangle,-. He then spenl a year in the laboratory of the distinguished chemisl and physicist, K'egnault, at Paris, whence he returned to accept the professorship of natural history in the Glasgow University at (he precocious age of 22. lie was of a sturdy physique, and became an enthusiastic yachtsman. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanc
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