James Thomson
British engineer
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- Masters Aerospace Engineering Imperial College London
- PhD Engineering University of Oxford
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, James Thomson FRS FRSE LLD was a British engineer and physicist, born in Belfast, and older brother of William Thomson . Biography Born in Belfast, much of his youth was spent in Glasgow. His father James was professor of mathematics at the University of Glasgow from 1832 onward and his younger brother William was to become Baron Kelvin. James attended Glasgow University from a young age and graduated with high honours in his late teens. After graduation, he served brief apprenticeships with practical engineers in several domains; and then gave a considerable amount of his time to theoretical and mathematical engineering studies, often in collaboration with his brother, during his twenties in Glasgow. In his late twenties he entered into private practice as a professional engineer with special expertise in water transport. In his early thirties, in 1855, he was appointed professor of civil engineering at Queen's University Belfast. He remained there until 1873, when he accepted the Regius professorship of Civil Engineering and Mechanics at the University of Glasgow until he resigned with failing eyesight in 1889.
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