Thompson, Silvanus P. (Silvanus Phillips)

William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin (26 June 1824 – 17 December 1907), was a Scottish mathematician, mathematical physicist and engineer. Born in Belfast, he was for 53 years the professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Glasgow, where he undertook significant research on the mathematical analysis of electricity, was instrumental in the formulation of the first and second laws of thermodynamics, and contributed significantly to unifying physics, which was then in its infancy of developm…