Mathematician:James Prescott Joule

Mathematician
English physicist, mathematician and brewer who studied the nature of heat, and discovered its relationship to mechanical work.

This led to the law of conservation of energy, which in turn led to the development of the first law of thermodynamics.

Nationality
British

History

 * Born: 24 December 1818 in Salford, Lancashire, England
 * Died: 11 October 1889 in Sale, Cheshire, England

Theorems and Definitions

 * Joule
 * Joule Expansion


 * Joule's First Law
 * Joule's Second Law
 * Joule-Thomson Effect (with ) (also known as Joule-Kelvin Effect or Kelvin-Joule Effect)

Publications

 * 1845: On the Mechanical Equivalent of Heat