James Prescott Joule
1818–89
Physicist. Studied in Manchester under John Dalton and John Davis. Published works on the mechanical value of heat and conservation of energy. Member of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society from 1842; secretary, 1846–50; vice-president, 1850–61; president, intermittently, 1861–82. FRS 1850; Royal Medal, 1852; Copley Medal, 1870.
Sources
Memoirs of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society 4th ser. 6 (1892)
ODNB
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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