Posted by Robert Hill on December 21, 2011 at 09:47:45 user eclrh.
In Reply to: Re: Tarb posted by John Nichols on December 21, 2011 at 07:42:43:
Maxwell and Thomson did not need initials
I gave Thompson initials to help avoid confusion with William Thomson (no P) (better known by his later title Lord Kelvin). However it turns out I needn't have bothered, as I now see from Wikipedia that Thomson was at Cambridge too.