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OriginalWilliam Rankine, engineer and physicist, one of the founders of thermodynamics.
Reason
After seeing how good of quality Annan's picture of Livingstone was, I looked to see what else he had. Rather a lot, actually, a lot of it connected with Edinburgh and Glasgow. So, William Rankine. He developed the Rankine temperature scale, which is... well, to use a formulation I had to learn way back when I was in American high school and studying for the SATs before I moved over here: Kelvin is to Celsius as Rankine is to Fahrenheit.
Did a lot of work on thermodynamics.
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Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Science and engineering
Creator
Thomas Annan, restored by Adam Cuerden

Promoted File:William John Macquorn Rankine by Thomas Annan.jpg --Armbrust The Homunculus 03:14, 2 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]