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

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...

Rankine's theory (maximum-normal stress theory), developed in 1857 by William John Macquorn Rankine, is a stress field solution that predicts active and...

The Rankine vortex is a simple mathematical model of a vortex in a viscous fluid. It is named after its discoverer, William John Macquorn Rankine. The...

of the work carried out by Scottish engineer and physicist William John Macquorn Rankine and French engineer Pierre Henri Hugoniot. The basic idea of...

Lord Kelvin and expanded upon by Hermann von Helmholtz and William John Macquorn Rankine. Assuming that the universe is eternal, a question arises: How...

offset from the path of communication. Rankine's method is named for its discoverer William John Macquorn Rankine at an early stage of his career. He had...

The Rankine lecture is an annual lecture organised by the British Geotechnical Association named after William John Macquorn Rankine, an early contributor...

purpose. ... Sir William Thomson and Professor Tait have lately substituted the word 'kinetic' for 'actual.'" William John Macquorn Rankine (1867). "On the...

feet each, whereas, in reality, it consists of seventy-four William John Macquorn Rankine (1863). A Manual of Civil Engineering (2nd ed.). London: Griffin...

Italian-born English nurse. July 5 – William John Macquorn Rankine (died 1872), Scottish physicist. August 2 – John Tyndall (died 1893), Irish physicist...

the Conservation of Force". Bartleby. Retrieved 6 April 2014. William John Macquorn Rankine (1853) "On the General Law of the Transformation of Energy,"...

S2CID 146292636. Grossman, M. I. (2014). "John Dalton and the London atomists: William and Bryan Higgins, William Austin, and new Daltonian doubts about...

James Watt (1736–1819) Thermodynamic cycle: William John Macquorn Rankine (1820–1872) Coal-gas lighting: William Murdoch (1754–1839) The Stirling heat engine:...

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...

Guide to Design and Installation John Wiley and Sons, 2009 ISBN 0-470-40479-5 pages 3–11. William John Macquorn Rankine A manual of civil engineering, C...

Pelleboer Sverre Petterssen José P. Piexoto Ron Przybylinski William John Macquorn Rankine Gandikota V. Rao Erik N. Rasmussen Lewis Fry Richardson Carl-Gustav...

The prime movers behind the founding of the Institution were William John Macquorn Rankine, Regius Professor of Civil Engineering and Mechanics at the...

scientific advice, but eminent engineers William Thomson (later Lord Kelvin) and William John Macquorn Rankine were appointed to the committee. It concluded...

with Dundee, Blackburn, Charlton Macquorn Rankine (William John Macquorn Rankine, 1820–1872), Scottish engineer William Rankins (fl. 1590s), English writer...

as William John Macquorn Rankine, James Thomson, James Clerk Maxwell, and Peter Guthrie Tait joined to champion Joule's cause. However, in 1862, John Tyndall...

advertise it elsewhere, attracting little attention other than from William John Macquorn Rankine and Hermann von Helmholtz through whom it may have influenced...

under Dove. Also involved editorially were William John Macquorn Rankine, Francis Bowen, John Eadie, and John Pringle Nichol. A list of contributors appeared...

hence an eccentricity of the axial load. The Rankine Gordon formula, named for William John Macquorn Rankine and Perry Hugesworth Gordon (1899 – 1966),...

temperature – Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit degree Rankine (°R), temperature – William John Macquorn Rankine Dobson unit (DU), atmospheric ozone – Gordon Dobson...

of the Human Body. JHU Press. p. 74. ISBN 978-0-8018-9455-8. William John Macquorn Rankine (1853) "On the general law of the transformation of energy"...

tutored as a young man by the famous scientist John Dalton and was strongly influenced by chemist William Henry and Manchester engineers Peter Ewart and...

'tired' in his lectures at the military school at Metz. 1842: William John Macquorn Rankine recognises the importance of stress concentrations in his investigation...

included William John Macquorn Rankine, Thomas Thomson, William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, David Brewster, Fleeming Jenkin, Joseph Lister, William Macewen...

Archimède Pouchet (born 1800), French scientist December 24 – William John Macquorn Rankine (born 1820), Scottish physicist Anne Elizabeth Ball (born 1808)...