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James Prescott Joule
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Scientists Who Have Touched Our Lives: James Prescott Joule
Created for Prof. Jaime Demick's Physics 251, fall 2015.
Overview
Galileo Galilei
Thomas Young
Isaac Newton
Daniel Bernoulli
Heinrich Hertz
James Clerk Maxwell
James Prescott Joule
Niels Bohr
Albert Einstein
Paul Dirac
Marie Curie
Richard Feynman
James Prescott Joule
Books
Scientists, mathematicians, and inventors lives and legacies : an encyclopedia of people who changed the world
by
Doris A. Simonis, Caroline. Hertzenberg
Call Number: e-book
Publication Date: Oryx Press, 1999.
Men of science: Humphry Davy, Michael Faraday, James Prescott Joule, William Thomson, James Clerk Maxwell,
by
J. G. Crowther
Call Number: 920 C953
Publication Date: 1936
Articles
James Joule's work in electrochemistry and the emergence of the first law of thermodynamics
James Prescott Joule (Britannica.com)
Web Resources
American Physical Society: James Prescott Joule
James Prescott Joule (1818-1889): Converting Work into Heat
Museum of Science and Industry, Manchester, England.
James Joule's Mechanical Equivalent of Heat Experiment
From the University of Notre Dame.
MUSEUM MARKS 200TH BIRTHDAY OF SCIENTIST AND ENGINEER JAMES JOULE
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