William John Macquorn Rankine, Scottish physicist and engineer (born 1820)

W. J. M. Rankine

Scottish mechanical engineer (1820–1872)

William John Macquorn Rankine was a Scottish mathematician and physicist. He was a founding contributor, with Rudolf Clausius and William Thomson, to the science of thermodynamics, particularly focusing on its First Law. He developed the Rankine scale, a Fahrenheit-based…