Identity area
Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Thomson, William (1824-1907), 1st Baron Kelvin, mathematician and physicist
Description area
Dates of existence
1824-1907
History
Knighted, 1866.
Created Baron Kelvin of Largs, 1892.
Control area
Sources
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
C. Smith and M. N. Wise, Energy and Empire (1989)