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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...
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  • In physics, Larmor precession (named after Joseph Larmor) is the precession of the magnetic moment of an object about an external magnetic field. The phenomenon...
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    his paper dated 1901. But in actuality the Northern Irish physicist, Joseph Larmor, created the first solar system model of the atom in 1897. The Rutherford...
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  • held by, among others, Isaac Newton, Charles Babbage, George Stokes, Joseph Larmor, Paul Dirac, and Stephen Hawking. Henry Lucas, in his will, bequeathed...
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  • tended to use arbitrary-looking coefficients and physical assumptions. Joseph Larmor discussed the aether in terms of a moving magnetic field caused by the...
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  • Joseph Larmor (1857–1942) was a British physicist and mathematician. Larmor may also refer to: Larmor (crater), on the Moon LARMOR neutron microscope,...
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  • The LARMOR neutron microscope is a microscope based on the principle of neutron scattering. It is named in honor of Joseph Larmor and the principle of...
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    Cambridge University Press. – edited by James Clerk Maxwell and revised by Joseph Larmor Cavendish, Henry (1921). Scientific Papers. Vol. 2. Cambridge: Cambridge...
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    is named in honor of the physicist Joseph Larmor. The rim of Larmor is broken across by the satellite crater Larmor Z. The remaining rim is slightly worn...
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    that internal currents are responsible for Earth magnetism . In 1919, Joseph Larmor proposed that a dynamo might be generating the field. However, even...
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    college can be nominated for the prestigious Larmor awards. The Awards are named after Sir Joseph Larmor, a former student at St John's. Winners of the...
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  • the laws of mechanics are invariant under a Galilean transformation. Joseph Larmor and Hendrik Lorentz discovered that Maxwell's equations, used in the...
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  • Francis FitzGerald, Oliver Lodge, Oliver Heaviside, Heinrich Hertz, and Joseph Larmor. The book has nine chapters; their titles and section headings are:...
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    at the Cavendish Laboratory under J. J. Thomson, George Searle and Joseph Larmor. After Born returned to Germany, the Army re-inducted him, and he served...
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    He attended lectures on electromagnetism given by James Jeans and Joseph Larmor, and did some research on cathode rays, but failed to impress Thomson...
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    262–5. doi:10.1098/rspl.1875.0033. Reprinted in Thomson, James (1912). Joseph Larmor & James Thomson (ed.). Collected Papers in Physics and Engineering by...
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    paper's core equations, the Lorentz transforms, had been published by Joseph Larmor (1897, 1900), Hendrik Lorentz (1895, 1899, 1904) and Henri Poincaré...
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  • Dictionary of Arts and Sciences (1st ed.). James and John Knapton, et al. Larmor, Joseph 2010. Retrieved January 2, 2011. Memoir and scientific correspondence...
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    editorship, and the two last (Cambridge, 1904 and 1905) under that of Sir Joseph Larmor, who also selected and arranged the Memoir and Scientific Correspondence...
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    Dynamic Stability of Bodies Containing Fluid (Springer, New York) Joseph Larmor (1884). Proc. London Math. Soc. vol. 15, pages 170–184 M.V. Tratnik...
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    Astrophysical plasma). Sunspots are caused by the Sun's magnetic fields, as Joseph Larmor theorized in 1919. The solar wind is also governed by MHD. The differential...
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  • factor was predicted by several authors at the turn of the 20th century. Joseph Larmor (1897) wrote that, at least for those orbiting a nucleus, individual...
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    so-called Lorentz transformation by Joseph Larmor (1897, 1900) and Lorentz (1899, 1904), whereby (it was noted by Larmor) the complete formulation of local...
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    as parts of an atom was a "free electron", as described by physicist Joseph Larmor and Hendrik Lorentz. While Thomson did not adopt the terminology, the...
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  • theory were made by George FitzGerald, Joseph John Thomson, John Henry Poynting, Hendrik Lorentz, and Joseph Larmor. Regarding the relative motion and the...
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    whom the absolute temperature unit, the kelvin, is named after. Sir Joseph Larmor, a physicist and mathematician, made innovations in the understanding...
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    intermolecular forces behave the same way as electromagnetic ones. In 1897 Joseph Larmor developed a model in which all forces are considered to be of electromagnetic...
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  • Merchant Taylors' School and St. John's College, Cambridge, where he won a Joseph Larmor Award and a boxing blue and was lead singer in a college band, Dr and...
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    2 {\textstyle L_{2}} occurs. This hypothesis was later extended by Joseph Larmor (1897), Lorentz (1904) and Henri Poincaré (1905), who developed the...
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  • sunspots. Joseph Larmor had worked in this area, arguing that sunspots regenerate themselves through a dynamo effect. Cowling showed that Larmor's proposed...
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