thermoelectricity
81Ritter, Johann Wilhelm — ▪ German physicist born Dec. 16, 1776, Samitz bei Haynau, Silesia died Jan. 23, 1810, Munich German physicist who discovered the ultraviolet region of the spectrum and thus helped broaden man s view beyond the narrow region of visible light …
82Sommerfeld, Arnold — ▪ German physicist born Dec. 5, 1868, Königsberg, Prussia [now Kaliningrad, Russia] died April 26, 1951, Munich German physicist whose atomic (atom) model permitted the explanation of fine structure spectral lines. After studying… …
83Sturgeon, William — ▪ British electrical engineer born May 22, 1783, Whittington, Lancashire, Eng. died Dec. 4, 1850, Prestwich, Lancashire English electrical engineer who devised the first electromagnet capable of supporting more than its own weight. This… …
84Tait, Peter Guthrie — ▪ Scottish mathematician and physicist born April 28, 1831, Dalkeith, Midlothian, Scotland died July 4, 1901, Edinburgh Scottish physicist and mathematician who helped develop quaternions, an advanced algebra that gave rise to vector… …
85thermolectric — adjective Of, pertaining to, or produced by thermoelectricity …
86thermoelectric — adjective Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting thermoelectricity …
87thermoelectrics — noun The study of thermoelectricity …
88thermocurrent — A current of thermoelectricity. * * * ther·mo·cur·rent (thur″mo kurґent) a thermoelectric current …
89thermoelectric — Relating to thermoelectricity. * * * ther·mo·elec·tric .thər mō i lek trik adj of, relating to, or dependent on phenomena that involve relations between the temperature and the electrical condition in a metal or in contacting metals * * *… …
90Thermal conduction — In heat transfer, conduction (or heat conduction) is a mode of transfer of energy within and between bodies of matter, due to a temperature gradient. Conduction means collisional and diffusive transfer of kinetic energy of particles of ponderable …
