| LC control no. | n 50012823 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Synge, J. L. (John Lighton), 1897-1995 |
| Variant(s) | Sing, Dzh. L. Synge, John L. (John Lighton), 1897-1995 Synge, John Lighton, 1897-1995 |
| Associated country | Ireland Canada Ireland Canada United States Ireland |
| Birth date | 1897-03-23 |
| Death date | 1995-03-30 |
| Place of birth | Dublin (Ireland) |
| Place of death | Dublin (Ireland) |
| Profession or occupation | Mathematicians Physicists |
| Found in | Hamilton, W. R. The mathematical papers ... 1931- Obshchai︠a︡ teorii︠a︡ otnositelʹnosti, 1963: t.p. (Dzh. L. Sing) LC data base, 10-14-83 (hdg.: Synge, John Lighton, 1897- ; usage: J.L. Synge, John L. Synge) Wikipedia, viewed June 28, 2016: (John Lighton Synge, born March 23, 1897, died March 30, 1995; Irish mathematician and physicist; moved to Canada to teach at University of Toronto in 1920; returned to Ireland in 1925; returned to University of Toronto in 1930; moved to United States in 1943; returned to Ireland in 1948; taught John Nash in the Mathematics Department of the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh; contributed to classical mechanics, general mechanics and geometrical optics, gas dynamics, hydrodynamics, elasticity, electrical networks, mathematical methods, differential geometry, and Einstein's theory of relativity) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lighton_Synge> |
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