List of things named after Lord Kelvin

William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin was a prolific scientific scholar who gave his name to several things.

Science and engineering

• The SI unit of temperature, kelvin
• Kelvin, a unit of measure for color temperature
• Kelvin balance
• Joule–Thomson effect
• Joule–Thomson (Kelvin) coefficient
• Kelvin's circulation theorem
• Kelvin–Helmholtz instability
• Kelvin–Helmholtz mechanism
• Kelvin–Helmholtz luminosity
• Kelvin-Helmholtz time scale
• Kelvin–Planck statement of the 2nd law of thermodynamics
• Kelvin–Varley divider
• Kelvin's balls
• Kelvin bridge
• Kelvin effect, see either Thomson effect or Kelvin equation
• Kelvin equation
• Kelvin–Voigt material, also:
• Kelvin material
• Kelvin solid
• Kelvin notation
• Kelvin probe force microscope
• Kelvin sensing
• Kelvin water dropper
• Kelvin wave
• Thomson bridge, see Kelvin bridge
• Thomson effect, Thomson–Seebeck effect: see Thermoelectric effect
• Kelvin Gold Medal, British engineering prize named after Lord Kelvin
• Kelvin Medal and Prize, British physics prize named after Lord Kelvin
• Kelvin cat's eye pattern
• Kelvin wake pattern
• Kelvin angle
• Kelvin’s heat death paradox
• Zero Kelvin
• Kelvin–Stokes theorem
• Kelvin functions
• Kelvin problem/Kelvin conjecture/Kelvin structure/Kelvin foam
• Kelvin transform
• Kelvin (microarchitecture)

Places

• Kelvin, North Dakota
• Rupes Kelvin
• Promontorium Kelvin
• Kelvin Island (Lake Nipigon)

Other

• The Kelvin Building in the University of Glasgow
• , a cable ship
• Kelvin High School, public high school in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
• 8003 Kelvin, a minor planet
• The Kelvin Club, Melbourne, Australia

See also

• Kelvin (disambiguation)

References