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
• SS Lord Kelvin, a cable ship
• Kelvin High School, public high school in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
• 8003 Kelvin
• The Kelvin Club, Melbourne, Australia

See also

• Kelvin (disambiguation)
• All pages with titles containing Kelvin

References

1. Lord Kelvin
2. Kelvin (disambiguation)
3. Kelvin equation
4. List of eponymous laws
5. List of scientific units named after people
6. Kelvingrove Park
7. Scientific phenomena named after people
8. International System of Units
9. List of Black Butler characters
10. History of thermodynamics
11. Senior Wrangler
12. The Afterparty (TV series)
13. History of physics
14. The Mikado
15. List of Black Butler episodes
16. Jared Leto
17. List of musician and band name etymologies
18. List of unsolved murders in the United Kingdom (2000–present)
19. Joseph Lister
20. History of the metric system