Hugh Longbourne Callendar

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Hugh Longbourne Callendar (1869–1964) was a British physicist and engineer best known for his contributions to thermodynamics and calorimetry. He is particularly noted for his work on the Callendar effect, which concerns the temperature-dependent resistance of materials, and for developing a form of calorimeter that significantly improved the accuracy of measuring heat capacities.

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