William Thomson (1824-1907) was made Baron Kelvin of Largs in 1892 — 'Kelvin' from the River Kelvin near Glasgow University, where he taught for 53 years. He formulated the absolute temperature scale that bears his name (
开尔文温标), helped lay the first transatlantic telegraph cable, and famously declared in 1900 that physics was nearly complete — five years before Einstein's annus mirabilis.
