File:Lord Kelvin photograph.jpg

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English: Photograph of William Thomson, Lord Kelvin.
Date First published Photographische Gesellschaft, Berlin
Source Portrait of William Thomson, Baron Kelvin, Smithsonian Libraries
Author "Photo by Messrs. Dickinson, London, New Bond Street" (according to http://www.sil.si.edu/DigitalCollections/hst/scientific-identity/fullsize/SIL14-T002-07a.jpg)
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current20:47, 7 November 2010Thumbnail for version as of 20:47, 7 November 2010939 × 1,176 (71 KB)Quibik (talk | contribs)Removed some JPEG artifacts, removed a vertical line, increased contrast.
16:17, 16 July 2010Thumbnail for version as of 16:17, 16 July 2010939 × 1,176 (36 KB)LobStoR (talk | contribs)lossless crop from source JPEG image, "lossless" reduction from 24-bit RGB to 8-bit greyscale
23:06, 17 October 2005Thumbnail for version as of 23:06, 17 October 2005944 × 1,180 (386 KB)Fastfission~commonswiki (talk | contribs)Photograph of William Thomson, Lord Kelvin. ==Licensing== *Image source: http://www.sil.si.edu/digitalcollections/hst/scientific-identity/CF/display_results.cfm?alpha_sort=k *Licensing: PD because of age (Kelvin himself died in 1907; seems very unli

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