James Prescott Joule (1818)
James Prescott Joule (; 24 December 1818 – 11 October 1889) was an English physicist.
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James Prescott Joule (1818)
James Prescott Joule (; 24 December 1818 – 11 October 1889) was an English physicist.
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Why is James Prescott Joule remembered?
Every major advance in physics was made by a person working to understand something that didn't quite make sense yet. James Prescott Joule was one of those people.
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About James Prescott Joule
James Prescott Joule (; 24 December 1818 – 11 October 1889) was an English physicist. 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 unit of energy, the joule (J), 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.
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