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The hypothesis that life originated on this earth through moss-grown fragments from the ruins of another world may seem wild and visionary; all I maintain is that it is not unscientific.
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One thing we are sure of... and that is the reality and substantiality of the luminiferous ether.
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William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
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Born:
June 26, 1824
Died:
December 17, 1907
(aged 83)
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William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin was a Scotch-Irish mathematical physicist and engineer who was born in Belfast in 1824.
Known for:
Treatise on Natural Philosophy (1867)
Elements of natural philosophy (1872)
Popular Lectures and Addresses (1889)
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