James Prescott Joule (1818 to 1889) was an English physicist who established that heat, mechanical work and electrical energy are interconvertible in a fixed proportion, the mechanical equivalent of heat. His experiments, most famously a falling weight driving a paddle wheel through insulated water, gave the first law of thermodynamics its experimental foundation and helped overturn the caloric theory of heat.
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He worked with Lord Kelvin to develop an absolute thermodynamic temperature scale, which came to be called the Kelvin scale.
Member Of: Copley Medal, Infobox: awards
Royal Medal (1852), Copley Medal (1870), Albert Medal (Royal Society of Arts), Albert Medal (1880)
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Encyclopaedia Britannica- Birth Year: 1818
- Field: Thermodynamics
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