From thermodynamics to refrigeration and the development of radio, Lord Kelvin’s contributions to science were many and varied Nineteenth-century scientist William Thomson, Lord Kelvin ...

Shan writes - Sir William Thomson (Lord Kelvin 1824 - 1907) was appointed to the position of Chair of Natural Philosophy (the subject we now call Physics) in 1846. He remained at the University of ...

In a new study published in Nature Physics, researchers have developed the first controlled method for exciting and observing Kelvin waves in superfluid helium-4. First described by Lord Kelvin in ...

Lord Smith of Kelvin has been appointed chairman of Scotland's main economic development agency, Scottish Enterprise. Lord Smith is one of Scotland's most experienced boardroom bosses, having led ...