William John Macquorn Rankine
William John Macquorn Rankine was a Scottish mechanical engineer who also contributed to civil engineering, physics and mathematics. He was a founding contributor, with Rudolf Clausius and William Thomson, to the science of thermodynamics, particularly focusing on the first of the three thermodynamic laws. He developed the Rankine scale, an equivalent to the Kelvin scale of temperature, but in degrees Fahrenheit rather than Celsius.
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Date of Birth
July 5th, 1820
Age
203
Birth Place
United Kingdom, Scotland
Date of Death
December 24th, 1872
Died Aged
52
Star Sign
Cancer
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