William JohnMacquorn Rankine (5. července 1820, Edinburgh – 24. prosince 1872, Glasgow) byl skotský inženýr a fyzik. S Rudolfem Clausiem a Williamem Thomsonem (lord Kelvin) spoluzaložil obor termodynamiku.
William JohnMacquorn Rankine was a Scottish engineer and physicist and one of the founders of the science of thermodynamics, particularly in reference to steam-engine theory. Trained as a civil engineer under Sir John Benjamin MacNeill…
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Rankine, WilliamJOHNMacquorn (1820-1872), Scottish engineer and physicist, was born at Edinburgh on the 5th of July 1820, and completed his education in its university.
William JohnMacquorn Rankine Miscellaneous Scientific Papers: By W.J. Macquorn Rankine ... From the Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal and Other Scientific and Philosophica