Prof David Thomson was a 19th-century Scottish physicist. He was known as Davie Thomson or later Auld Dauvit.
The grave of Prof David Thomson, churchyard of St Machar's Cathedral
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin was a Scottish mathematician, mathematical physicist and engineer.
David Thomson (physicist)
…1840 he acted as substitute Professor of Natural Philosophy (Physics) in place of William Meikleham at Glasgow University. His most notable student was William Thomson, Lord Kelvin. In 1845 he got a permanent position at King's College, Aberdeen. In 1854 he became Sub-Principal of the college. When King's and Marischal College…
Kelvin, c. 1900, by T. & R. Annan & Sons
The meander of the River Kelvin containing the Neo-Gothic Gilmorehill campus of the University of Glasgow designed by George Gilbert Scott, to which the university moved in the 1870s (photograph 1890s)
William Thomson's telegraphic syphon recorder, on display at Porthcurno Telegraph Museum, in January 2019
Lord Kelvin's sailing yacht Lalla Rookh