Quo Fuit places 5 dated presences for James Prescott Joule across 5 places, from 1818 to 1847.
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James Prescott Joule (24 December 1818 to 11 October 1889) was an English physicist.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
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Salfordattested“James Joule was born in 1818, the son of Benjamin Joule, a wealthy brewer, and his wife, Alice Prescott, on New Bailey Street in Salford.”source: Wikipedia: James Prescott Joule
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Germanyattested“However, in Germany, Hermann Helmholtz became aware both of Joule's work and the similar 1842 work of Julius Robert von Mayer.”source: Wikipedia: James Prescott Joule
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Oxfordattested“Also in 1847, another of Joule's presentations at the British Association in Oxford was attended by George Gabriel Stokes, Michael Faraday, and the precocious and maverick William Thomson, later to become Lord Kelvin, who had just been a…”source: Wikipedia: James Prescott Joule
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University of Glasgowattested“Also in 1847, another of Joule's presentations at the British Association in Oxford was attended by George Gabriel Stokes, Michael Faraday, and the precocious and maverick William Thomson, later to become Lord Kelvin, who had just been a…”source: Wikipedia: James Prescott Joule
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British Associationattested“Also in 1847, another of Joule's presentations at the British Association in Oxford was attended by George Gabriel Stokes, Michael Faraday, and the precocious and maverick William Thomson, later to become Lord Kelvin, who had just been a…”source: Wikipedia: James Prescott Joule
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August 1843month
Cork (city)mentioned“He announced his results at a meeting of the chemical section of the British Association for the Advancement of Science in Cork in August 1843 and was met by silence.”source: Wikipedia: James Prescott Joule
20 June 1844exact date
Royal Societymentioned“Joule read his paper to the Royal Society on 20 June 1844, but his paper was rejected for publication by the Royal Society and he had to be content with publishing in the Philosophical Magazine in 1845.”source: Wikipedia: James Prescott Joule
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Cambridgementioned“In June 1845, Joule read his paper On the Mechanical Equivalent of Heat to the British Association meeting in Cambridge.”source: Wikipedia: James Prescott Joule
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British Associationmentioned“In June 1845, Joule read his paper On the Mechanical Equivalent of Heat to the British Association meeting in Cambridge.”source: Wikipedia: James Prescott Joule
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Manchestermentioned“Joule has been attributed with explaining the sunset green flash phenomenon in a letter to the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society in 1869; actually, he noted the last glimpse as bluish green, without attempting to explain the…”source: Wikipedia: James Prescott Joule
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