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Sir Joseph Larmor FRS FRSE (11 July 1857 – 19 May 1942) was an Irish and British physicist and mathematician who made breakthroughs in the understanding of electricity, dynamics, thermodynamics, and the electron theory of matter.
May 15, 2024 · Sir Joseph Larmor was an Irish physicist, the first to calculate the rate at which energy is radiated by an accelerated electron, and the first to explain the splitting of spectrum lines by a magnetic field.
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Jul 11, 2011 · Joseph Larmor (1857 - 1942) - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics. Quick Info. Born. 11 July 1857. Magheragall, County Antrim, Ireland. Died. 19 May 1942. Holywood, County Down, Ireland. Summary. Joseph Larmor worked on electricity, dynamics and thermodynamics. View three larger pictures. Biography.
Joseph Larmor is known in geomagnetism for the precession frequency of the proton that now bears his name and his seminal paper of 1919 proposing the dynamo theory for the first time. His main purpose was to explain the solar magnetic field, but he also had the geomagnetic field in mind.
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Joseph Larmor was a great mathematical physicist, and a great Irishman after the manner of MacCullagh, Rowan Hamilton and FitzGerald, the "three Irish giants" in whose steps he walked and whom he worshipped on this side idolatry.
A tribute to the life and work of Sir Joseph Larmor, a distinguished physicist and mathematician who made significant contributions to the dynamical theory of the aether and matter. Learn about his achievements, his academic career, his publications and his legacy in science.
Joseph Larmor. Born the son of a Belfast shopkeeper in 1857, Joseph Larmor studied maths here at St John’s and became Senior Wrangler (achieved the highest mark in the final year exams in Cambridge).
