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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...
- Lord
Kelvin and
expanded upon by
Hermann von
Helmholtz and
William John
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universe is eternal, a
question arises: How...
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William John
Macquorn Rankine (1863). A
Manual of
Civil Engineering (2nd ed.). London: Griffin...
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French paleontologist and
geologist (b. 1802) 1872 –
William John
Macquorn Rankine,
Scottish physicist and
engineer (b. 1820) 1873 –
Johns Hopkins...
- biom****, coal, and
nuclear power plants. It is
named after William John
Macquorn Rankine, a
Scottish polymath. The
Rankine cycle is
sometimes referred to...
- heat
source and heat sink. The
Rankine cycle is
named after William John
Macquorn Rankine, a
Scottish polymath professor at
Glasgow University. Heat energy...
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April 1865). "On the
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Glasgow 1879, p. 561.
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Mayer 1876, p. 155.
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faculties of
universities in
France and in the
United Kingdom.
William John
Macquorn Rankine at the
University of
Glasgow pioneered the
theoretical understanding...
