James Prescott Joule
British physicist
Died when: 70 years 291 days (849 months)Star Sign: Capricorn
James Prescott Joule FRS FRSE (/d?u?l/; 24 December 1818 – 11 October 1889) was an English physicist, mathematician and brewer, born in Salford, Lancashire.
Joule studied the nature of heat, and discovered its relationship to mechanical work (see energy).This led to the law of conservation of energy, which in turn led to the development of the first law of thermodynamics.
The SI derived unit of energy, the joule, is named after him.He worked with Lord Kelvin to develop an absolute thermodynamic temperature scale, which came to be called the Kelvin scale.
Joule also made observations of magnetostriction, and he found the relationship between the current through a resistor and the heat dissipated, which is also called Joule's first law.
His experiments about energy transformations were first published in 1843.
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