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Retirement from Glasgow Chair

Great Britain · Science / Physics. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1899

William Thomson Kelvin1899

Glasgow · Science / Physics

Retires from the Chair of Natural Philosophy after fifty-three years.

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William Thomson Kelvin

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