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James Prescott Joule

James Prescott Joule

British Physicist


Dead at 70 years
Birthday
Thursday
He is born 205 years, 3 months and 5 days ago
Death date
Friday

He is dead since 134 years, 5 months and 18 days
Birthplace
Salford, England
Nationality: british Royaume-Uni
Birth sign: Capricorn

James Prescott Joule (; 24 December 1818 – 11 October 1889) was an English physicist, mathematician and brewer, born in Salford, Lancashire. Joule studied the nature of heat, and discovered its relationship to mechanical work. This led to the law of conservation of energy, which in turn led to the development of the first law of thermodynamics. The SI derived unit of energy, the joule, is named after him.

He worked with Lord Kelvin to develop an absolute thermodynamic temperature scale, which came to be called the Kelvin scale. Joule also made observations of magnetostriction, and he found the relationship between the current through a resistor and the heat dissipated, which is also called Joule's first law. His experiments about energy transformations were first published in 1843.

Source : Wikipedia