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MOST of the points raised by Prof. J. C. Georgian on the subject of the temperature scale1 are discussed in Chapter 23 of A Textbook of Heat by Alien and Maxwell (1948). The authors refer to a paper by Lewis and Adams2 making the very point about the dimensions of temperature, specific heat and enthalpy made by Prof. Georgian and proposing a temperature scale that would make PV = nθ, where n = Avogadro's number. They also discuss a proposal by Planck which seems to have been essentially that now made by Prof. Georgian.
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LAWS, R. The Temperature Scale. Nature 207, 1285 (1965). https://doi.org/10.1038/2071285a0
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