James Prescott Joule, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

James Prescott Joule

English physicist and brewer

Date of Birth: 24-Dec-1818

Place of Birth: Salford, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 11-Oct-1889

Profession: physicist

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


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About James Prescott Joule

  • James Prescott Joule (; 24 December 1818 – 11 October 1889) was an English physicist, mathematician and brewer, born in Salford, Lancashire.
  • Joule studied the nature of heat, and discovered its relationship to mechanical work (see energy).
  • 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. Joule worked with Lord Kelvin to develop an absolute thermodynamic temperature scale, which came to be called the Kelvin scale.
  • Joule also made observations of magnetostriction, and he found the relationship between the current through a resistor and the heat dissipated, which is also called Joule's first law.
  • His experiments about energy transformations were first published in 1843.

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