List of Famous people with last name Joule

Barry Joule

First Name Barry

Last Name Joule

Barry Joule is a Canadian writer, and a long-time friend of the artist Francis Bacon who died in 1992 and left a substantial amount of his archive material to Joule.

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James Prescott Joule

First Name James

Last Name Joule

Born on December 24, 1818

Died on October 11, 1889 (aged 70)

Born in United Kingdom, England

James Prescott Joule was an English physicist, mathematician and brewer, born in Salford, Lancashire. Joule studied the nature of heat, and discovered its relationship to mechanical work. This led to the law of conservation of energy, which in turn led to the development of the first law of thermodynamics. The SI derived unit of energy, the joule, is named after him.

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