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James Prescott Joule

Black and white portrait photo of James Joule 1906.

James Prescott Joule (1818–1889) was an English physicist who studied the nature of heat and its relationship to mechanical work, he also developed the first law of thermodynamics. The unit of energy, the joule, has been named in his honour.

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