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Joseph Larmor
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Irish physicist and mathematician (1857-1942)
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Joseph Larmor was a British mathematician, physicist, politician, and university teacher. He was educated at St John's College, Queen's University Belfast, and the University of Cambridge. Larmor served as the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge and worked at the University of Galway. His doctoral advisor was Edward Routh, and his doctoral students included Sydney Chapman, Robert Schlapp, and Bertram Hopkinson.
Larmor was a member of the Royal Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, and the National Academy of Sciences. He received the Copley Medal, the Royal Medal, and the Poncelet Prize. He was also a Fellow of the Royal Society. His notable works include Larmor precession, gyroradius, and the Larmor formula. He was a member of the Conservative Party.
Born in Belfast in 1857, Larmor died in Holywood in 1942. He held positions as chairperson and president. His works include Mathematical and Physical Papers and Memoir and Scientific Correspondence of the Late Sir George Gabriel Stokes, Bart. He spoke English.
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Person · Open Library
- 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
· 2016 · cited 38,648x
- 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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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Joseph
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Place of birth
- Belfast
- Place of death
- Holywood
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Position held
- chairperson
- Employer
- University of Galway
- Political party
- Liberal Unionist Party
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Notable work
- gyroradius
- Academic degree
- Master of Arts
- Doctoral advisor
- Edward Routh
- Field of work
- mathematics
- Image
- Joseph Larmor.jpeg
- Work location
- London
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- Commons category
- Joseph Larmor
- member of
- National Academy of Sciences
- date of birth
- 1857-07-11
- date of death
- 1942-05-19
- name in native language
- Joseph Larmor
- Commons Creator page
- Joseph Larmor
- writing language
- English language
- honorific prefix
- Sir
- candidacy in election
- 1918 United Kingdom general election
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
- P8168
- Velická Valley
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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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