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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, with Rudolf Clausius and William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), to the science of thermodynamics, particularly focusing on its First Law.

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   Jul 1, 2024 · William John Macquorn Rankine was a Scottish engineer and physicist and one of the founders of the science of thermodynamics, particularly in reference to steam-engine theory. Trained as a civil engineer under Sir John Benjamin MacNeill, Rankine was appointed to the Queen Victoria chair of civil.

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   William Rankine worked on several areas of applied mathematics including mechanics, thermodynamics and waves.

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   Feb 26, 2020 · William John Macquorn Rankine (Edinburgh, July 5, 1820 - Glasgow, December 24, 1872) was a Scottish engineer and physicist. He had very different interests; in his youth he was interested in botany, music theory and number theory and in his later years in mathematics and technology.

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   William J.M. Rankine, also known as Macquorn Rankine, was one of the greatest scientists and engineers to be born in Scotland, but unlike his predecessor James Watt or his contemporaries Lord Kelvin and James Clerk Maxwell he is relatively unknown.

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   Jun 27, 2024 · Ranking Rankine: W. J. M. Rankine (1820–72) and the Making of ‘Engineering Science’ Revisited. History of Science, Vol. 51, Issue. 4, p. 434.

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   Who was William Rankine?

   • 1. INTRODUCTION William J.M. Rankine, also known as Macquorn Rankine, was one of the greatest scientists and engineers to be born in Scotland, but unlike his predecessor James Watt or his contemporaries Lord Kelvin and James Clerk Maxwell he is relatively unknown.

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   What is Rankine temperature scale?

   • Rankine temperature scale, scale established in 1859 by Scottish engineer and physicist William John Macquorn Rankine (1820–72), with its zero set to the theoretical temperature at which the molecules of a substance have the lowest energy ( absolute zero ).

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   Did Rankine take a degree?

   • He did not take a degree but chose to leave university in 1838 and become an apprentice to the engineer John Benjamin MacNeill. This was not Rankine's first experience of engineering for while he studied at Edinburgh University he had worked on the Edinburgh and Dalkeith Railway which his father was overseeing.

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   When did Rankine die?

   • Rankine died at the relatively young age of 52 on Christmas Eve 1872. His successor was James Thomson, who finally joined his brother as a professor at Glasgow. It was James who had the task of nurturing Rankine’s ideas on engineering education and ensuring that the curriculum went from strength to strength.

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   Rankine temperature scale, scale established in 1859 by Scottish engineer and physicist William John Macquorn Rankine (1820–72), with its zero set to the theoretical temperature at which the molecules of a substance have the lowest energy (absolute zero). The Rankine (°R) scale is the absolute.