Lord Kelvin Statue

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Just inside the Stranmillis Rd gate of Belfast's Botanic Gardens is a statue of Belfast-born William Thomson – Lord Kelvin – who helped lay the foundation of modern physics and who invented the Kelvin scale, which measures temperatures from absolute zero (-273°C or 0°K).

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