PHYSICIST

James Prescott Joule

1818 - 1889

James Prescott Joule

James Prescott Joule (; 24 December 1818 – 11 October 1889) was an English physicist, mathematician and brewer, born in Salford, Lancashire. Joule studied the nature of heat, and discovered its relationship to mechanical work (see energy). This led to the law of conservation of energy, which in turn led to the development of the first law of thermodynamics. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of James Prescott Joule has received more than 728,438 page views. His biography is available in 112 different languages on Wikipedia making him the 14th most popular physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, James Prescott Joule ranks 14 out of 659. Before him are Max Planck, James Clerk Maxwell, André-Marie Ampère, Pierre Curie, Ernest Rutherford, and Henri Becquerel. After him are Christiaan Huygens, Robert Hooke, Evangelista Torricelli, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrödinger, and Enrico Fermi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1818, James Prescott Joule ranks 2. Before him is Karl Marx. After him are Ivan Turgenev, Alexander II of Russia, Emily Brontë, Charles Gounod, Ignaz Semmelweis, Christian IX of Denmark, Jacob Burckhardt, Marius Petipa, Lewis H. Morgan, and Adolf Anderssen. Among people deceased in 1889, James Prescott Joule ranks 1. After him are Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria, Antonio Meucci, Jefferson Davis, Father Damien, Baroness Mary Vetsera, Michel Eugène Chevreul, Mihai Eminescu, Alexandre Cabanel, Luís I of Portugal, Nikolay Chernyshevsky, and Wilkie Collins.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, James Prescott Joule ranks 43 out of 5,347. Before him are Thomas More (1478), Lord Byron (1788), Bertrand Russell (1872), Anne Boleyn (1501), Francis Drake (1540), and William Wallace (1270). After him are Lewis Carroll (1832), Robert Hooke (1635), Sean Connery (1930), John Dalton (1766), Anne, Queen of Great Britain (1665), and Anthony Hopkins (1937).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United Kingdom

Among physicists born in United Kingdom, James Prescott Joule ranks 5. Before him are Isaac Newton (1643), Stephen Hawking (1942), Michael Faraday (1791), and James Clerk Maxwell (1831). After him are Robert Hooke (1635), J. J. Thomson (1856), William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin (1824), Paul Dirac (1902), Thomas Young (1773), James Chadwick (1891), and William Gilbert (1544).

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