Kelvin: Life, Labours and Legacy
Flood, Raymond University of Oxford
McCartney, Mark University of Ulster
Whitaker, Andrew The Queen's University, Belfast
Print publication date: 2008 (this edition)
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: May 2008
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-923125-6
doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199231256.003.0006
 

6 Kelvin and Fitzgerald: Great Irish Physicists
Denis Weaire
This chapter compares Lord Kelvin and George Francis Fitzgerald. Topics covered include their Irish roots, education, publications, educational concerns, attitudes towards James Clark Maxwell, and final words.
Keywords: Lord Kelvin, George Francis Fitzgerald, scientists, James Clark Maxwell
doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199231256.003.0006
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Preface
Life
1 William Thomson: An Introductory Biography
2 Educating William: Belfast, Glasgow, and Cambridge
3 On the Early Work of William Thomson: Mathematical Physics and Methodology in the 1840s
4 James Thomson and the Culture of a Victorian Engineer
5 Fifty-Eight Years of Friendship: Kelvin and Stokes
6 Kelvin and Fitzgerald: Great Irish Physicists
Labours
7 Concepts and Models of the Magnetic Field
8 ‘A Dynamical Form of Mechanical Effect’: Thomson's Thermodynamics
9 Kelvin and Engineering
10 William Thomson's Determinations of the Age of the Earth
11 Thomson and Tait: The Treatise on Natural Philosophy
12 Kelvin on Atoms and Molecules
Legacy
13 Kelvin and the Development of Science in Meiji Japan
14 Kelvin, Maxwell, Einstein and the Ether: Who was Right about What?
15 Kelvin and Statistical Mechanics
16 Kelvin—The Legacy
Index
 
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