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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...
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temperature named after the
University of
Glasgow engineer and
physicist Macquorn Rankine, who
proposed it in 1859.
Similar to the
Kelvin scale,
which was...
- heat
source and heat sink. The
Rankine cycle is
named after William John
Macquorn Rankine, a
Scottish polymath professor at
Glasgow University. Heat energy...
- Lord
Kelvin and
expanded upon by
Hermann von
Helmholtz and
William John
Macquorn Rankine. ****uming that the
universe is eternal, a
question arises: How...
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Nineteenth Century. Blackwood. p. 139. ISBN 0-8446-2579-5.
William John
Macquorn Rankine (1853). "On the
general law of the
transformation of energy". Proceedings...
- hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu.
Retrieved 26
February 2025.
William John
Macquorn Rankine (1853) "On the
general law of the
transformation of energy", Proceedings...
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Conservation of Force". Bartleby.
Retrieved 6
April 2014.
William John
Macquorn Rankine (1853) "On the
General Law of the
Transformation of Energy," Proceedings...
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successor to the
Kelvin microarchitecture. It was
named with
reference to
Macquorn Rankine and used with the
GeForce FX series.
DirectX 9.0a
OpenGL 1.5 (2...
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mathematician and
physicist Richard Owen, biologist,
coined the term
dinosaur Macquorn Rankine, engineer,
founding contributor to
thermodynamics Benjamin Rush...
- biom****, coal, and
nuclear power plants. It is
named after William John
Macquorn Rankine, a
Scottish polymath. The
Rankine cycle is
sometimes referred to...
