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    John Lighton Synge FRS FRSC (/sɪŋ/; 23 March 1897 – 30 March 1995) was an Irish mathematician and physicist, whose seven-decade career included significant...
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  • John Synge may refer to: John Lighton Synge (1897–1995), Irish mathematician and physicist John Millington Synge (1871–1909), Irish dramatist, poet, prose...
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    of Edward Synge, Archbishop of Tuam, and Edward's son Nicholas, the Bishop of Killaloe. His nephews included mathematician John Lighton Synge and optical...
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  • near-field optical microscope John Lighton Synge (1897–1995), Irish mathematician and physicist John Millington Synge (1871–1909), Irish playwright,...
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  • Lighton may refer to: John Lighton Synge, Irish mathematician Louis D. Lighton, American screenwriter Lighton Baronets, a title in the Baronetage of Ireland...
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  • theoretical physicist John Lighton Synge. Edward Hutchinson Synge was born in 1890, in County Dublin, Ireland, to Edward Synge and Ellen Frances Price...
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  • circularity in dictionary definitions. Irish mathematician and physicist, John Lighton Synge, invented the multi-player, refereed game to emphasize the circular...
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  • geometry, Synge's theorem is a classical result relating the curvature of a Riemannian manifold to its topology. It is named for John Lighton Synge, who proved...
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    though he died before it was established and his plan was overseen by John Lighton Synge. The medal was first awarded in 1936 to Finnish mathematician Lars...
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    to a chemistry major and eventually, at the advice of his teacher John Lighton Synge, to mathematics. After graduating in 1948, with both a B.S. and M...
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  • and is given at irregular intervals. The award is named in honor of John Lighton Synge. Source: Royal Society of Canada 2023 – Anita Layton, FRS 2022 – Kevin...
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  • structure of a white hole interior, a possibility already suggested by John Lighton Synge. The possibility of the existence of white holes was put forward by...
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    prime number in 1999 and a record composite Fermat number in 2003. John Lighton Synge made progress in different fields of science, including mechanics...
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    National Medal of Science in 1998. Morawetz's father, John Lighton Synge, nephew of John Millington Synge, was an Irish mathematician, specializing in the...
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  • University at Buffalo. Her father was John Lighton Synge, an Irish mathematician and physicist. Her sister Cathleen Synge Morawetz is also a mathematician...
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    « Chromatiques whiteheadiennes » "Whitehead's Principle of Relativity" by John Lighton Synge on arXiv.org Whitehead at Monoskop.org, with extensive bibliography...
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    (1804–1878) – Physician William Stokes Jnr (1838–1900) – Surgeon John Lighton Synge (1897–1995) – Physicist Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) – Writer and poet...
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  • – founder and CEO of Anam Technologies Edward Hutchinson Synge – physicist John Lighton Synge – mathematician William Tisdall – priest Willie Walsh – CEO...
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  • the atom) discovered by Ernest Walton et al. 1936: Synge's theorem discovered by John Lighton Synge. 1946: Ejection seat - first live test of a reliable...
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    and measured its charge John Lighton Synge (1897–1995) – mathematician William Thomson, Lord Kelvin (1824–1907) – physicist John Tyndall (1820–1893) – physicist...
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  • son-in-law Synge. The playwright John Millington Synge and the scientists John Lighton Synge and Edward Hutchinson Synge are his direct descendants. John Hatch...
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    [1894–1974] Louis de Broglie [1892–1987]] Norbert Wiener [1894–1964] John Lighton Synge [1897–1995] Mário Schenberg [1914–1990] Wolfgang Pauli [1900–1958]...
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  • fundamental unit of electricity Jane Stout, ecologist and entomologist John Lighton Synge, mathematician and scientist Charles Hawkes Todd, physician, professor...
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    the original (PDF) on 14 January 2015. Retrieved 7 August 2013. "John Lighton Synge". History.mcs.st-and.ac.uk. Retrieved 6 August 2013. "Irishman who...
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  • 1 March – Robert Bruce Bowers, cricketer (died 1956). 23 March – John Lighton Synge, mathematician and physicist (died 1995). 4 April – Francis Evans...
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    American include two book reviews and a popular article on mathematics. John Lighton Synge reviewed ten of Whittaker's papers when he wrote about Whittaker's...
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  • Geary 1979 Cormac O'Ceallaigh 1978 George Francis Mitchell 1972 John Lighton Synge 1971 Patrick Joseph Nolan 1970 Thomas J. Walsh 1969 Vincent C. Barry...
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    Joseph Sylvester Edward Hutchinson Synge John Lighton Synge John Millington Synge John Trenchard Wolfe Tone John Winthrop Hackett Frederick Thomas Trouton...
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    his work on Harmonic functions was covered in an article by Temple, John Lighton Synge wrote about his contributions to the theory of relativity, and James...
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  • Hartree (1897–1958) Lewi Tonks (1897–1971) Ivan Stranski (1897–1979) John Lighton Synge (1897–1995) Ali Moustafa Mosharafa (1898–1950) Ronald Wilfred Gurney...
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