Sir
William Thompson [sic] and Lord Kelvin are credited with naming Maxwell's demon in Seth Lloyd's obituary of Rolf Landauer (Nature 400, 720; 1999). The demon, or at least an editorial gremlin, is having a little joke: William Thomson (without the ‘p’) and Lord Kelvin were one and the same, transmuted by act of Queen Victoria in 1892.
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Cox, N. Devil in the detail. Nature 401, 424 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1038/46667
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