James Thomson Bottomley | |
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| Born | 10 January 1845 Fort Breda, County Down, Ireland |
| Died | 18 May 1926 |
| Nationality | British |
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| Occupation | Physicist |
James Thomson Bottomley FRS FRSE (10 January 1845 – 18 May 1926) was an Irish-born British physicist.
He is noted for his work on thermal radiation and on his creation of 4-figure logarithm tables, used to convert long multiplication and division calculations to simpler addition and subtraction before the introduction of fast calculators.