John Faithfull 🌍🇪🇺🏴🧡✊🏻✊🏿<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@sellathechemist" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>sellathechemist</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://astrodon.social/@quantensalat" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>quantensalat</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.scot/@Peternimmo" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>Peternimmo</span></a></span> Kelvin was good at self-promotion, plus he had powerful acolytes like Guthrie Tait who promoted him aggressively. Rankine was maybe more creative than Kelvin, but less of a mathematician, and definitely more modest. 🔥 Trying to summarise people in a couple of sentences is 😀 <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Controversial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Controversial</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Simplistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Simplistic</span></a> 🤣</p>