Etymology

Thomson effect

Today it means: The phenomenon where, when in the presence of a gradient in the Seebeck coefficient, driving a current through this gradient produces a continuous version of the Peltier effect. Full definition →

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The story

Named after William Thomson, Lord Kelvin.

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