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OCR: LORD KELVIN (1824 1907) HSILLTD mathema ntician and physicist Lord Kelvin (born in N Jorthern Ireland as William Thomson was the founder of modern British physics. His name given unit of temperature equivalent Celsius but on scale that takes 0 tc be 273C 459 Kelvin calculated that this was the lowest possible tem perature any matter could achieve This temperature known absolute zero and the scale called the absolute, or Kelvin, scale Kelvin' interests spread across the whole field of science from energy geology. His work opened the wa many of the great scientific discoveries in Europe in the 1800s and early 1900s. ALSO STORY COTTISH mathematician Northern