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Joseph Larmor
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Irish physicist and mathematician (1857-1942)
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- Works
- 11
Top works
- Aether and Matter - a Development of the Dynamical Relations of the Aether to Material Systems on the Basis of the Atomic Constitution of Matter Inclu
- Mathematical and Physical Papers; Volume 4
- Memoir and Scientific Correspondence of the Late Sir George Gabriel Stokes, Bart. , Selected and Arranged by Joseph Larmor; Volume 1
- Mathematical and Physical Papers; Volume 2
- Memoir and Scientific Correspondence of the Late Sir George Gabriel Stokes, Bart. : Volume 2
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- You Only Look Once: Unified, Real-Time Object Detection
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- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 34,634x
- Naturalistic inquiry
· 1985 · cited 33,101x
- When to use and how to report the results of PLS-SEM
· 2019 · cited 19,751x
- CONFIDENCE LIMITS ON PHYLOGENIES: AN APPROACH USING THE BOOTSTRAP
· 1985 · cited 19,525x
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Quotes
- “The evidence is closing in more and more rigorously that the medium which transmits electrical and radiant effects must either completely accompany matter in bulk in its movements or else be entirely independent of such movements.”
- “The direct knowledge of matter that mankind can acquire is a knowledge of the average behaviour and relations of the crowd of molecules.”
- “From remote ages the great question with which, since Newton's time, we have been familiar under the somewhat misleading antithesis of contact versus distance, has engaged speculation,—how is that portions of matter can interact on each other which seem to have no means of connexion between them. Can a body act where it is not?”
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Key facts
- Preceded by
- Samuel Butcher
- Succeeded by
- J. R. M. Butler
- Born
- ( 1857-07-11 ) 11 July 1857, County Antrim , Ireland
- Died
- 19 May 1942 (1942-05-19) (aged 84), Holywood , Northern Ireland , UK
- Education
- Royal Belfast Academical Institution
- Alma mater
- Queen's University Belfast ( BA , MA ) St John's College, Cambridge (MA)
- Known for
- Larmor formula Larmor precession Time dilation
- Political party
- Conservative
- Awards
- The William Hopkins Prize (1897) De Morgan Medal (1914) Royal Medal (1915) Poncelet Prize (1918) Copley Medal (1921)
- Fields
- Electromagnetism Relativistic physics
- Institutions
- Queen's College, Galway (1880–1885) University of Cambridge (1885–1932)
- Academic advisors
- John Purser Edward Routh
- Notable students
- Max Born Sydney Chapman Ebenezer Cunningham Bertram Hopkinson Robert Schlapp
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Encyclopedic overview
Sir Joseph Larmor (11 July 1857 – 19 May 1942) was an Irish mathematician, theoretical physicist, and British politician 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.
Biography
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