not Scottish - he was Irish, born in Belfast to a farmer from the same city.
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'''Lord Kelvin''' (1824-1907), who was Scottish with the real name of William Thomson, originally intended to become a [[minister]] of the [[Presbyterian Church]] but decided to become a [[mathematics|mathematician]] and [[physics|physicist]] instead. He helped with the first successful transatlantic communications cable, and the [[absolute temperature scale|absolute scale]] for temperature (where zero is no heat whatsoever) ([[Kelvin]]) is named after him.
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'''Lord Kelvin''' (1824-1907), who was Irish with the real name of William Thomson, originally intended to become a [[minister]] of the [[Presbyterian Church]] but decided to become a [[mathematics|mathematician]] and [[physics|physicist]] instead. He helped with the first successful transatlantic communications cable, and the [[absolute temperature scale|absolute scale]] for temperature (where zero is no heat whatsoever) ([[Kelvin]]) is named after him.