Joseph Larmor Scientist

Sir Joseph Larmor FRS (11 July 1857 – 19 May 1942) was a physicist and mathematician who made innovations in the understanding of electricity, dynamics, thermodynamics, and the electron theory of matter. His most influential work was Aether and Matter, a theoretical physics book published in 1900.

Personal facts

Birth dateJuly 11, 1857
Birth place
County Antrim
Date of deathMay 19, 1942
Place of death
Northern Ireland , Holywood , County Down
Education
Queen's University Belfast
Royal Belfast Academical Institution
University of Cambridge
Known for
Larmor formula
Larmor precession
Gyroradius
Relativity of simultaneity
Larmor's theorem

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Scientist

awards
Royal Society
Smith's Prize
Senior Wrangler (University of Cambridge)
Copley Medal
Royal Medal
Adams Prize
De Morgan Medal
doctoral student
David Burnett (physicist)
Robert Schlapp
Field of study
Physics

Joseph Larmor on Wikipedia

External resources

  1. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view.php?pid=UQ:9560
  2. http://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk/db/node.xsp?id=EAD%2FGBR%2F0275%2FLarmor;recurse=1
  3. http://www.universityscience.ie/pages/scientists/sci_josephlarmor.php
  4. http://www.victorianweb.org/science/ether.htm