William John Macquorn Rankine
Civil engineer (1820–1872)
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Scottish mathematician who co-founded thermodynamics and gifted the world the Rankine scale—basically the Fahrenheit cousin nobody asked for but engineers loved anyway.
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William John Macquorn Rankine was a Scottish mathematician and physicist. He was a founding contributor, with Rudolf Clausius and William Thomson, to the science of thermodynamics, particularly focusing on its First Law. He developed the Rankine scale, a Fahrenheit-based equivalent to the Celsius-based Kelvin scale of temperature.
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