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William John Macquorn Rankine FRSE FRS ( / ˈræŋkɪn /; 5 July 1820 – 24 December 1872) was a Scottish mathematician and physicist. He was a founding contributor, with Rudolf Clausius and William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), to the science of thermodynamics, particularly focusing on its First Law.
5 days ago · William John Macquorn Rankine was a Scottish engineer and physicist and one of the founders of the science of thermodynamics, particularly in reference to steam-engine theory. Trained as a civil engineer under Sir John Benjamin MacNeill, Rankine was appointed to the Queen Victoria chair of civil.
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William John Macquorn Rankine. Quick Info. Born. 5 July 1820. Edinburgh, Scotland. Died. 24 December 1872. Glasgow, Scotland. Summary. William Rankine worked on several areas of applied mathematics including mechanics, thermodynamics and waves. View four larger pictures. Biography.
Feb 26, 2020 · William John Macquorn Rankine (Edinburgh, July 5, 1820 - Glasgow, December 24, 1872) was a Scottish engineer and physicist. He had very different interests; in his youth he was interested in botany, music theory and number theory and in his later years in mathematics and technology.
William J.M. Rankine, also known as Macquorn Rankine, was one of the greatest scientists and engineers to be born in Scotland, but unlike his predecessor James Watt or his contemporaries Lord Kelvin and James Clerk Maxwell he is relatively unknown.
Rankine temperature scale, scale established in 1859 by Scottish engineer and physicist William John Macquorn Rankine (1820–72), with its zero set to the theoretical temperature at which the molecules of a substance have the lowest energy (absolute zero).
May 23, 2018 · RANKINE, WILLIAM JOHN MACQUORN. ( b. Edinburgh, Scotland, 5 July 1820; d. Glasgow, Scotland, 24 December 1872), engineering, engineering education, physical science. Rankine was the son of David Rankine, an army lieutenant, and Barbara Grahame. Another son died in childhood.
