1824 - 1907
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, (26 June 1824 – 17 December 1907) was a British mathematician, mathematical physicist and engineer born in Belfast. He was the professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Glasgow for 53 years, where he undertook significant research and mathematical analysis of electricity, the formulation of the first and second laws of thermodynamics, and contributed significantly to unifying physics, which was then in its infancy of development as an emerging academic discipline. He received the Royal Society's Copley Medal in 1883 and served as its president from 1890 to 1895. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin has received more than 1,962,004 page views. His biography is available in 81 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 78 in 2019). William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin is the 70th most popular physicist (down from 55th in 2019), the 239th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 187th in 2019) and the 14th most popular British Physicist.
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin is most famous for his work in thermodynamics and the invention of the Kelvin scale.
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Among physicists, William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin ranks 70 out of 717. Before him are Lev Landau, Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis, Otto Stern, Robert Andrews Millikan, Emil Lenz, and Roger Penrose. After him are John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, Max von Laue, William Rowan Hamilton, Carl Zeiss, Jean Baptiste Perrin, and Lawrence Bragg.
1908 - 1968
HPI: 69.97
Rank: 64
1792 - 1843
HPI: 69.92
Rank: 65
1888 - 1969
HPI: 69.91
Rank: 66
1868 - 1953
HPI: 69.87
Rank: 67
1804 - 1865
HPI: 69.76
Rank: 68
1931 - Present
HPI: 69.71
Rank: 69
1824 - 1907
HPI: 69.64
Rank: 70
1842 - 1919
HPI: 69.62
Rank: 71
1879 - 1960
HPI: 69.58
Rank: 72
1805 - 1865
HPI: 69.57
Rank: 73
1816 - 1888
HPI: 69.50
Rank: 74
1870 - 1942
HPI: 69.37
Rank: 75
1890 - 1971
HPI: 69.26
Rank: 76
Among people born in 1824, William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin ranks 5. Before him are Bedřich Smetana, Alexandre Dumas fils, Anton Bruckner, and Gustav Kirchhoff. After him are Maria Alexandrovna, Jean-Léon Gérôme, Eugène Boudin, Paul Broca, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, Marie Duplessis, and Wilkie Collins. Among people deceased in 1907, William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin ranks 7. Before him are Dmitri Mendeleev, Edvard Grieg, Sully Prudhomme, Klara Hitler, Oscar II of Sweden, and Henri Moissan. After him are Hector Malot, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Alfred Jarry, Robert I, Duke of Parma, Asaph Hall, and Giosuè Carducci.
1824 - 1884
HPI: 78.38
Rank: 1
1824 - 1895
HPI: 75.75
Rank: 2
1824 - 1896
HPI: 74.74
Rank: 3
1824 - 1887
HPI: 74.38
Rank: 4
1824 - 1907
HPI: 69.64
Rank: 5
1824 - 1880
HPI: 68.63
Rank: 6
1824 - 1904
HPI: 67.18
Rank: 7
1824 - 1898
HPI: 67.13
Rank: 8
1824 - 1880
HPI: 65.72
Rank: 9
1824 - 1898
HPI: 64.61
Rank: 10
1824 - 1847
HPI: 62.42
Rank: 11
1824 - 1889
HPI: 61.85
Rank: 12
1834 - 1907
HPI: 85.55
Rank: 1
1843 - 1907
HPI: 80.06
Rank: 2
1839 - 1907
HPI: 75.84
Rank: 3
1860 - 1907
HPI: 73.27
Rank: 4
1829 - 1907
HPI: 72.36
Rank: 5
1852 - 1907
HPI: 71.08
Rank: 6
1824 - 1907
HPI: 69.64
Rank: 7
1830 - 1907
HPI: 68.06
Rank: 8
1848 - 1907
HPI: 67.35
Rank: 9
1873 - 1907
HPI: 65.76
Rank: 10
1848 - 1907
HPI: 64.80
Rank: 11
1829 - 1907
HPI: 64.25
Rank: 12
1835 - 1907
HPI: 64.15
Rank: 13
Among people born in United Kingdom, William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin ranks 239 out of 7,765. Before him are Lady Jane Grey (1537), Peter O'Toole (1932), Lemmy (1945), Roger Penrose (1931), Harold Wilson (1916), and Edward Burnett Tylor (1832). After him are John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh (1842), John Law (1671), Ken Loach (1936), Alexander Selkirk (1676), Clement Attlee (1883), and James George Frazer (1854).
1537 - 1554
HPI: 69.82
Rank: 233
1932 - 2013
HPI: 69.82
Rank: 234
1945 - 2015
HPI: 69.76
Rank: 235
1931 - Present
HPI: 69.71
Rank: 236
1916 - 1995
HPI: 69.66
Rank: 237
1832 - 1917
HPI: 69.65
Rank: 238
1824 - 1907
HPI: 69.64
Rank: 239
1842 - 1919
HPI: 69.62
Rank: 240
1671 - 1729
HPI: 69.62
Rank: 241
1936 - Present
HPI: 69.54
Rank: 242
1676 - 1721
HPI: 69.52
Rank: 243
1883 - 1967
HPI: 69.51
Rank: 244
1854 - 1941
HPI: 69.50
Rank: 245
Among physicists born in United Kingdom, William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin ranks 14. Before him are Paul Dirac (1902), J. J. Thomson (1856), Thomas Young (1773), James Chadwick (1891), Charles Thomson Rees Wilson (1869), and Roger Penrose (1931). After him are John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh (1842), Owen Willans Richardson (1879), Peter Higgs (1929), William Henry Bragg (1862), Henry Moseley (1887), and Edward Victor Appleton (1892).
1902 - 1984
HPI: 73.53
Rank: 8
1856 - 1940
HPI: 73.01
Rank: 9
1773 - 1829
HPI: 72.42
Rank: 10
1891 - 1974
HPI: 72.41
Rank: 11
1869 - 1959
HPI: 70.33
Rank: 12
1931 - Present
HPI: 69.71
Rank: 13
1824 - 1907
HPI: 69.64
Rank: 14
1842 - 1919
HPI: 69.62
Rank: 15
1879 - 1959
HPI: 69.23
Rank: 16
1929 - Present
HPI: 68.66
Rank: 17
1862 - 1942
HPI: 68.25
Rank: 18
1887 - 1915
HPI: 67.42
Rank: 19
1892 - 1965
HPI: 67.00
Rank: 20