John Morris Rankin 1959-2000 pianist and fiddler from Canada
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Rankine was initially educated at home owing to his poor health, but later attended Ayr Academy and the High School of Glasgow.
The year 1842 also marked Rankine's first attempt to reduce the phenomena of heat to a mathematical form but he was frustrated by his lack of experimental data.
Rankine attempted to apply his hypothesis of molecular vortices to the phenomena of birefringence (possibly motivated by the earlier work of Forbes) and of elasticity but without success.
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