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Peter Guthrie Tait

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Peter Guthrie Tait

Scottish mathematical physicist (1831–1901)

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Born: 1831
Died: 1901
Works: 58

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The Elements of Natural Philosophy
Elements of Natural Philosophy
Elements of natural philosophy
Treatise on natural philosophy

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Type: Person
Country: US
Active from: 1912-07-14
Active to: 1967-10-03

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

Cutoff criteria for fit indexes in covariance structure analysis: Conventional criteria versus new alternatives

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William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin

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1831 births 1901 deaths 19th-century Scottish mathematicians 20th-century Scottish mathematicians Academics of Queen's University Belfast Academics of the University of Edinburgh Alumni of Peterhouse, Cambridge Alumni of the University of Edinburgh British mathematical physicists Fellows of Peterhouse, Cambridge Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

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· 1999 · cited 84,576x

A new method of classifying prognostic comorbidity in longitudinal studies: Development and validation

· 1987 · cited 42,104x

QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data

· 2010 · cited 30,698x

RoB 2: a revised tool for assessing risk of bias in randomised trials

· 2019 · cited 23,483x

<i>PHENIX</i>: a comprehensive Python-based system for macromolecular structure solution

· 2010 · cited 23,272x

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Quotes

“Oh, that's nothing – I could coach a coal scuttle to be Senior Wrangler.”
“[Examiners] spend their lives in discovering which pages of a text-book a man ought to read and which will not be likely to 'pay'.”
“The next grand extensions of mathematical physics will, in all likelihood, be furnished by quaternions.”

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Key dates

Born: 28 April 1831
Died: 4 July 1901

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: human
Gender: male
Citizenship: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Place of birth: Dalkeith
Place of death: Edinburgh
Occupation: physicist
Educated at: University of Cambridge
Employer: Peterhouse
Languages spoken: English language
Doctoral advisor: William Hopkins
Field of work: thermodynamics
Image: George Reid (1841-1913) - Professor Peter Guthrie Tait (1831–1901), Physicist - PG 600 - National Galleries of Scotland.jpg
Work location: Scotland

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P463: Royal Society of Edinburgh
P802: Alexander Macfarlane
P6886: English language
P6104: WikiProject Mathematics
P12749: Candlemas Islands

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thermodynamic equation

crossing number

James Clerk Maxwell

University of Edinburgh

Theorem of corresponding states

law of thermodynamics

William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin

quasistatic process

Carnot's theorem

volume flow rate

thermal expansion

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combined cycle power station

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