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Color portrait of Lord Kelvin. He is balding, with a long and bushy white beard. Kelvin is tinkering with some sort of thermodynamic apparatus – a tank of some sort of cooling or heating a gas. The painting is mostly dark hue, except for Kelvin’s face, beard, and hands, and the metallic shine of the tank.

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Color portrait of Lord Kelvin. He is balding, with a long and bushy white beard. Kelvin is tinkering with some sort of thermodynamic apparatus – a tank of some sort of cooling or heating a gas. The painting is mostly dark hue, except for Kelvin’s face, beard, and hands, and the metallic shine of the tank.
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Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 27-Apr-2023 16:49:12 UTC Robert McNees
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There is an apocryphal story about the great physicist William Thomson — Lord Kelvin — in which he surveys the state of physics at the end of the 19th century and judges it nearly complete. I heard it repeated by a professor when I was an undergraduate.
Image: Harry Herman Salomon / Wellcome Collection

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