William Rankine
William John Macquorn Rankine
William John Macquorn Rankine
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a Scottish mechanical engineer who also contributed to civil engineering, physics and mathematics
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Born
5 July 1820 Edinburgh, Scotland
Died
24 December 1872 (aged 52) Glasgow, Scotland
Nationality
Scottish
Known for
Rankine body Rankine half body Rankine cycle Rankine's method Rankine scale Rankine theory Rankine vortex Rankine–Hugoniot relation Laws of thermodynamics Second law of thermodynamics Entropy Heat death
Fields
Physics, engineering, civil engineering
Alma mater
University of Edinburgh
Awards
Keith Medal (1854)
Institutions
University of Glasgow
adultbasic
Britain
era
1800+
Influenced
Pierre Duhem