Joseph Larmor | |
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Born | Magheragall, County Antrim, Ireland | 11 July 1857
Died | 19 May 1942 | (aged 84)
Alma mater | Royal Belfast Academical Institution Queen's University Belfast St John's College, Cambridge |
Known for | Larmor precession Larmor radius Larmor's theorem Larmor formula Relativity of simultaneity |
Awards | Smith's Prize (1880) Senior Wrangler (1880) Fellow of the Royal Society (1892) Adams Prize (1898) Lucasian Professor of Mathematics (1903) De Morgan Medal (1914) Royal Medal (1915) Copley Medal (1921) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Physics |
Institutions | St John's College, Cambridge Queen's College, Galway |
Academic advisors | Edward Routh |
Doctoral students | Kwan-ichi Terazawa |
Sir Joseph Larmor FRS FRSE (11 July 1857 – 19 May 1942) was an Irish[2] and British 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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