List of things named after Lord Kelvin

William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin was a prolific scientific scholar who gave his name to several things.

Science and engineering

 * The SI unit of temperature, kelvin
 * Kelvin, a unit of measure for color temperature
 * Kelvin balance
 * Joule–Thomson effect
 * Joule–Thomson (Kelvin) coefficient
 * Kelvin's circulation theorem
 * Kelvin–Helmholtz instability
 * Kelvin–Helmholtz mechanism
 * Kelvin–Helmholtz luminosity
 * Kelvin-Helmholtz time scale
 * Kelvin–Planck statement of the 2nd law of thermodynamics
 * Kelvin–Varley divider
 * Kelvin's balls
 * Kelvin bridge
 * Kelvin effect, see either Thomson effect or Kelvin equation
 * Kelvin equation
 * Kelvin–Voigt material, also:
 * Kelvin material
 * Kelvin solid
 * Kelvin notation
 * Kelvin probe force microscope
 * Kelvin sensing
 * Kelvin water dropper
 * Kelvin wave
 * Thomson bridge, see Kelvin bridge
 * Thomson effect, Thomson–Seebeck effect: see Thermoelectric effect
 * Kelvin Gold Medal, British engineering prize named after Lord Kelvin
 * Kelvin Medal and Prize, British physics prize named after Lord Kelvin
 * Kelvin cat's eye pattern
 * Kelvin wake pattern
 * Kelvin angle
 * Kelvin’s heat death paradox
 * Zero Kelvin
 * Kelvin–Stokes theorem
 * Kelvin functions
 * Kelvin problem/Kelvin conjecture/Kelvin structure/Kelvin foam
 * Kelvin transform
 * Kelvin (microarchitecture)

Places

 * Kelvin, North Dakota
 * Rupes Kelvin
 * Promontorium Kelvin
 * Kelvin Island (Lake Nipigon).

Other

 * The Kelvin Building in the University of Glasgow
 * SS Lord Kelvin, a cable ship
 * Kelvin High School, public high school in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
 * 8003 Kelvin
 * The Kelvin Club, Melbourne, Australia