List of things named after Lord Kelvin

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

Science

• The SI unit of temperature, kelvin

Physics

• Joule–Thomson effect
  • Joule–Thomson (Kelvin) coefficient
• Kelvin's circulation theorem
• Kelvin–Helmholtz instability
• Kelvin–Helmholtz mechanism
  • Kelvin–Helmholtz luminosity
• Kelvin–Planck statement of the 2nd law of thermodynamics
• Kelvin–Varley divider
• Kelvin bridge
• Kelvin effect, see either Thomson effect or Kelvin equation
• Kelvin equation
• Kelvin–Voigt material, also:
  • Kelvin material
  • Kelvin solid
• Kelvin probe force microscope
• Kelvin sensing
• Kelvin water dropper
• Kelvin wave
• Thomson bridge, see Kelvin bridge
• Thomson effect, Thomson–Seebeck effect: see Thermoelectric effect

Pure and applied mathematics

• Kelvin–Stokes theorem
• Kelvin functions
• Kelvin problem
• Kelvin transform

Other

• The Kelvin Building in the University of Glasgow
• Kelvin Gold Medal
• The town of Kelvin, Arizona.

See also

• Kelvin (disambiguation)