Biography and achievements of jouless

James Prescott Joule, (December 24, 1818 – October 11, 1889), Fellow of the Royal Society, was an Englishphysicist, born in Sale, Cheshire. He discovered that heat and mechanical energy are inter-convertible, and that transformations from one to the other occur in a fixed proportion, known as the mechanical equivalent of heat.

His careful experiments helped overthrow the prevailing "caloric theory" of heat, a theory that had hampered scientific progress. Joule's researches were guided by his religious convictions.

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His speeches often included references to God and God's creation.

Life

Early years

The son of Benjamin Joule (1784–1858), a wealthy brewer, Joule was tutored at home until 1834, when at the age of 15, he was sent, with his elder brother, Benjamin, to study with John Dalton at the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society.

The pair only received two years' education in arithmetic and geometry when Dalton was for Biography: James Prescott Joule - BOHU