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Horace Lamb | |
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 Horace Lamb in 1885 | |
| Born | 27 November 1849 |
| Died | 4 December 1934 (aged 85) Cambridge, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | Trinity College, Cambridge |
| Known for | Lamb vector Lamb–Oseen vortex Lamb–Chaplygin dipole Lamb waves Lamb surfaces Skin effect Volume viscosity |
| Awards | Smith's Prize (1872) Royal Medal (1902) De Morgan Medal (1911) Copley Medal (1923) |
| Scientific career | |
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| Academic advisors | James Clerk Maxwell[1] George Gabriel Stokes[2] |
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Sir Horace Lamb (27 November 1849 – 4 December 1934[3]) was a British applied mathematician and author of several influential texts on classical physics, among them Hydrodynamics (1895) and Dynamical Theory of Sound (1910).[4] Both of these books remain in print. The word vorticity was invented by Lamb in 1916.[5]
- ^ Andrew Warwick, Masters of Theory: Cambridge and the Rise of Mathematical Physics, University of Chicago Press, 2003, p. 325.
- ^ Horace Lamb at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ R. B. Potts, 'Lamb, Sir Horace (1849–1934)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 5, MUP, 1974, pp 54–55. Retrieved 5 Sep 2009
- ^ O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F. "Horace Lamb". MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive. University of St Andrews.
- ^ Truesdell, C. (1954). The kinematics of vorticity (Vol. 954). Bloomington: Indiana University Press.