Lord Kelvin: Beyond Absolute Zero (first showing)
Lord Kelvin: Beyond Absolute Zero (first showing)
LK200 ARC Public
Date: Saturday 08 June 2024 - Saturday 15 June 2024
Time: 08:00 - 18:00
Venue: Advanced Research Centre (ARC), 11 Chapel Lane, Glasgow, G11 6EW
Category: Exhibitions
Mention Lord Kelvin and many people think of temperature and his discovery of absolute zero, the lowest temperature possible. However, Kelvin was a polymath, who made many pioneering contributions beyond thermodynamics, in areas of electromagnetism, geology, nautical engineering and chemistry, to name but a few.
Lord Kelvin was born William Thomson 200 years ago this year, and in this special exhibition, we combine science, maths and art to offer a fascinating insight into some of his lesser-known achievements. Discover his work on ‘chirality’, crucial for life as we know it, and explore his solution for the most efficient space-filling shape (which held the record until only very recently!). We will also spotlight his groundbreaking contributions to electrical standards, global communications and imagining atoms as knots in the aether.
The exhibition will include an immersive work by the artist Gregor Harvie, rarely seen artefacts from the University's Special Collections and interactive displays created with current University of Glasgow researchers.