| LC control no. | n 87116502 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Larmor, Joseph, 1857-1942 |
| Variant(s) | Larmor, Joseph, Sir, 1857- |
| Located | Cambridge (England) |
| Birth date | 18570711 |
| Death date | 19420519 |
| Place of death | Holywood (Northern Ireland) |
| Affiliation | St. John's College (University of Cambridge) |
| Profession or occupation | Physicists |
| Found in | Thomson, J. Collected papers in physics and engineering, 1912: t.p. (Sir Joseph Larmor, D.Sc., LL.D., Sec. R.S., M.P., Lucasian Professor of Mathematics in the University of Cambridge) LCCN 38-1012: Maxwell, J.C. Origins of Clerk Maxwell's electric ideas, 1937 (hdg.: Larmor, Sir Joseph, 1857- ; usage: Sir Joseph Larmor) LC data base, 7-30-87 (hdg.: Larmor, Joseph, Sir, 1857- ; usage: Joseph Larmor) Oxford dictionary of national biography WWW site, Nov. 27, 2009 (Larmor, Sir Joseph; b. July 11, 1857, Magheragall, Co. Antrim; d. May 19, 1942, Holywood, Co. Down; theoretical physicist) Oxford dictionary of national biography WWW site, 23 Sep., 2014 (seeking to return to Cambridge, Larmor applied unsuccessfully for the Cavendish professorship of experimental physics in 1884; J. J. Thomson was elected, but in 1885 Larmor was appointed to succeed him in one of five recently created university lectureships in mathematics; he lived at St John's College for the rest of his working life, succeeding G. G. Stokes as Lucasian professor of mathematics in 1903) <http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/34409?docPos=2> |
| Associated language | eng |
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