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Lord Kelvin

Black and white Photograph of William Thomson, Lord Kelvin.

William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, was a Scottish mathematician and physicist who developed the Kelvin scale of temperature measurement. He also had theories on the age of the Earth and Sun that were later disproved.

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