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Sir Joseph Larmor 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.
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science · Irish theoretical physicist (1857–1942) · mathematician · physicist · politician · university teacher · also Joseph Larmor, Sir Joseph Larmor, Larmor
Born 11 July 1857 · Died 19 May 1942 · Q536500
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…that of the transmission of radiation across a medium permeated by molecules, each consisting of a system of electrons in steady orbital motion, and each capable of free oscillations about the steady state of motion with definite free periods analogous to those of the planetary inequalities of the Solar System;
“…that of the transmission of radiation across a medium permeated by molecules, each consisting of a system of electrons in steady orbital motion, and each capable of free oscillations about the steady state of motion with definite free periods analogous to those of the planetary inequalities of the Solar System;”
Scientific American: Stories by Joseph Larmor
Died 1942-05-19.
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Larmor moved back to County Down in Northern Ireland
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Won Copley Medal (1921).
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At the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) in Strasbourg
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Larmor proposed sunspots are self-regenerative dynamo action on the Sun's surface
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Awarded Poncelet Prize (1918).
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Career landmark: member of the 31st Parliament of the United Kingdom (1918–1922).
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Won Royal Medal (1915).
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Won De Morgan Medal (1914).
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Career landmark: president (1914–1916).
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Career landmark: member of the 30th Parliament of the United Kingdom (1911–1918).
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Awarded Knight Bachelor (1909).
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Won Royal Society Bakerian Medal (1909).
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Career landmark: Lucasian Professor of Mathematics (1903–1932).
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Was appointed Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, a position he held until his retirement in 1932
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Awarded Adams Prize (1899).
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Career landmark: chairperson (1895–1897).
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Awarded Fellow of the Royal Society (1892).
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Awarded Smith's Prize (1880).
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Studied at University of Cambridge, Doctor (1880).
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Studied at St John's College (1877–1880).
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Studied at Queen's University Belfast, Master of Arts (1877).
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Studied at Royal Belfast Academical Institution (1873).
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Born 1857-07-11.
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