James Thomson Bottomley

James Thomson Bottomley FRS FRSE (10 January 1845 – 18 May 1926) was an Irish-born British physicist.

James Thomson Bottomley

LLD FRS FRSE
Born10 January 1845
Fort Breda, County Down, Ireland
Died18 May 1926
Glasgow, Scotland
NationalityBritish
Alma mater
  • Queens College, Belfast
  • Trinity College, Dublin
OccupationPhysicist

He is noted for his work on thermal radiation and on his creation of 4-figure logarithm tables, used to convert long multiplication and division calculations to simpler addition and subtraction before the introduction of fast calculators.

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