Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/William Rankine

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Original – William Rankine, engineer and physicist, one of the founders of thermodynamics.

Reason: After seeing how good of quality Annan's picture of Livingstone was, I looked to see what else he had. Rather a lot, actually, a lot of it connected with Edinburgh and Glasgow. So, William Rankine. He developed the Rankine temperature scale, which is... well, to use a formulation I had to learn way back when I was in American high school and studying for the SATs before I moved over here: Kelvin is to Celsius as Rankine is to Fahrenheit.

Did a lot of work on thermodynamics.
Articles in which this image appears: William Rankine + 2
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Science and engineering
Creator: Thomas Annan, restored by Adam Cuerden

Support as nominator – Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.4% of all FPs.} 02:20, 22 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support – Bammesk (talk) 03:12, 22 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support — Chris Woodrich (talk) 10:00, 22 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support – Choliamb (talk) 19:52, 22 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support – Hamid Hassani (talk) 20:29, 22 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support – Vinícius O. (talk) 22:02, 22 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Nythar (💬-🍀) 18:59, 24 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support. MER-C 11:23, 25 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:William John Macquorn Rankine by Thomas Annan.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 03:14, 2 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]