Joseph Larmor | |
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![]() Larmour, c. 1920 | |
Born | Magheragall, County Antrim, Ireland | 11 July 1857
Died | 19 May 1942 Holywood, County Down, Northern Ireland[1] | (aged 84)
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Scientific career | |
Fields | Physics |
Institutions | St John's College, Cambridge Queen's College, Galway |
Academic advisors | Edward Routh |
Doctoral students | Kwan-ichi Terazawa |
14th Lucasian Professor of Mathematics | |
In office 1903–1932 | |
Preceded by | George Gabriel Stokes |
Succeeded by | Paul Dirac |
Sir Joseph Larmor FRS FRSE (11 July 1857 – 19 May 1942) was an Irish[2] physicist and mathematician who made breakthroughs 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.
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