What is recorded here
This blue commemorative plaque records: William Thomson, Baron Kelvin of Largs, physicist lived here 1870-1899 Recorded plaque organisation: Institute of Physics.
William Thomson, later known as Lord Kelvin, was a prominent physicist whose work in thermodynamics and electromagnetism was foundational to modern physics; he is remembered for developing the Kelvin scale of absolute temperature.
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