1820 - 1872
William John Macquorn Rankine Scottish Writer
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| First Name |
William
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| Middle Name |
John Macquorn
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| Last Name |
Rankine
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| Birthday |
5th July, 1820
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| Birthplace |
Edinburgh
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| Died |
24th December, 1872
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| Place of Death |
Glasgow, Scotland
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| Zodiac Sign |
Cancer
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| Nationality |
Scottish
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| Occupation |
Writer
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William John Macquorn Rankine FRSE FRS (; 5 July 1820 – 24 December 1872) was a Scottish mechanical engineer who also contributed to civil engineering, physics and mathematics. He was a founding contributor, with Rudolf Clausius and William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), to the science of thermodynamics, particularly focusing on the first of the three thermodynamic laws. He developed the Rankine scale, an equivalent to the Kelvin scale of temperature, but in degrees Fahrenheit rather than Celsius.
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