William John Macquorn Rankine FRSE FRS (/ˈræŋkɪn/; 5 July 1820 – 24 December 1872) was a Scottish mathematician and physicist. He was a founding contributor...

Rankine is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: William Rankine (1820–1872), Scottish engineer and physicist Rankine body an elliptical...

(also flattened catenary, was defined by William Rankine as transformed catenary and thus sometimes called Rankine curve) is a catenary curve, but of a special...

was introduced by the 19th-century Scottish engineer and physicist William Rankine, although it has links to the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle's...

William Rankine Milligan, Lord Milligan, PC (12 December 1898 – 28 July 1975) was a Scottish judge and Unionist politician. He served as Solicitor General...

of fluid dynamics, a Rankine half body is a feature of fluid flow discovered by Scottish physicist and engineer William Rankine that is formed when a...

then elaborated over the next decade by Hermann von Helmholtz and William Rankine. The idea of the heat death of the universe derives from discussion...

moves between a heat source and heat sink. The Rankine cycle is named after William John Macquorn Rankine, a Scottish polymath professor at Glasgow University...

of an infinitely old universe; this paradox was later extended by William Rankine. In final publication, Thomson retreated from a radical departure and...

thermodynamic concept was referred to by Scottish scientist and engineer William Rankine in 1850 with the names thermodynamic function and heat-potential. In...

modern science. The first thermodynamic textbook was written in 1859 by William Rankine, originally trained as a physicist and a civil and mechanical engineering...

described "kinetic energy" in 1829 in its modern sense, and in 1853, William Rankine coined the term "potential energy". The law of conservation of energy...

philosopher, and Catholic writer French Pascal 2016 William Rankine (1820–1872) Mechanical engineer Scottish Rankine 2003 Vera Rubin (1928–2016) Astronomer American...

John Rankine (born Douglas Rankine Mason; 26 September 1918 – 8 August 2013) was a British science fiction author, who wrote books as John Rankine and...

to the spectre of the heat death of the universe. In 1854, William John Macquorn Rankine started to make use of what he called thermodynamic function...

Rankine is the codename for a GPU microarchitecture developed by Nvidia, and released in 2003, as the successor to the Kelvin microarchitecture. It was...

Carpenter, Willis Carrier, Edwin Ruud, Reuben Trane, James Joule, William Rankine, Sadi Carnot, Alice Parker and many others. Multiple inventions within...

Rankine was born in Ayrshire, Scotland, the eldest son of sheep farmer William Rankine and his wife Jane, née Paterson. He migrated with his parents to South...

kinetic energy. William Thomson, later Lord Kelvin, is given the credit for coining the term "kinetic energy" c. 1849–1851. William Rankine, who had introduced...

the 1850s and 1860s by those such as Rudolf Clausius, William Rankine, Peter Tait, and William Thomson. By the 1870s, the term had acquired a use of its...

Hematology (William Hewson), Dermatology (Robert Willan), Epigenetics (C. H. Waddington), Gestalt psychology (Kurt Koffka), Thermodynamics (William Rankine), Colloid...

principle stems from this publication. In 1850, the Scottish mathematician William Rankine first used the phrase the law of the conservation of energy for the...

Canadian Niagara Power Company and named for company's founder William Birch Rankine (b. 1858), a New York City (and later of Niagara Falls) lawyer originally...

Thaw's wife, actress Evelyn Nesbit. In October long time investor William Rankine died of a heart attack. George Scherff, Tesla's chief manager who had...

that proved useful for estimating stresses at depth in the ground. William Rankine, an engineer and physicist, developed an alternative to Coulomb's earth...

the law came in 1850 from Rudolf Clausius, and from William Rankine. Some scholars consider Rankine's statement less distinct than that of Clausius. The...

Dorothy Leila Rankine (31 December 1932 – 15 January 1993) was an Aboriginal community worker, musician, and poet. Known as Leila Rankine, she was a founding...

Manual of Applied Mechanics in 1858 by English mechanical engineer William Rankine. August Föppl, a German mechanical engineer and professor, published...

made until 1922. Unaware of the solution of the geometry by Euler, William Rankine cited the cubic curve (a polynomial curve of degree 3), which is an...

mechanical engineer William Rankine showed that the speed of sound is proportional to the square root of Poisson's γ: Rankine, William John Macquorn (1851)...