Joseph Larmor

Joseph Larmor
Date personale
Născut	11 iulie 1857[5][6][7][8] Belfast, Regatul Unit al Marii Britanii și Irlandei
Decedat	19 mai 1942 (84 de ani)[9][5][6][7] Holywood⁠(d), Irlanda de Nord, Regatul Unit
Înmormântat	Holywood Priory[*][[Holywood Priory |​]]
Cetățenie	Regatul Unit  Regatul Unit al Marii Britanii și Irlandei
Ocupație	matematician fizician politician cadru didactic universitar[*]​
Locul desfășurării activității	Londra
Limbi vorbite	limba engleză[10][11][12]
Activitate
Domeniu	fizică[1] matematică[1]
Instituție	Universitatea Cambridge[2] Universitatea Națională Irlandeză din Galway[*]​[2]
Alma Mater	St John's College[*][[St John's College (constituent college of the University of Cambridge)|​]][2] Queen's University Belfast[*][[Queen's University Belfast (public research university in Belfast, United Kingdom)|​]][2] Universitatea Cambridge[3] Royal Belfast Academical Institution[*][[Royal Belfast Academical Institution (grammar school in Belfast, Northern Ireland)|​]]
Organizații	Societatea Regală din Londra Academia Americană de Arte și Științe[*]​ Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei Academia Națională de Științe a Statelor Unite ale Americii[*]​
Conducător de doctorat	Edward Routh[*][[Edward Routh (matematician britanic)|​]]
Doctoranzi	Sydney Chapman[3] Robert Schlapp[*][[Robert Schlapp (548*)|​]][3] Kwan-ichi Terazawa[*][[Kwan-ichi Terazawa (matematician japonez)|​]][3] David Burnett[*][[David Burnett (Ph.D. University of Cambridge 1930)|​]][3]
Cunoscut pentru	Larmor precession[*][[Larmor precession (Physical phenomenon)|​]] gyroradius[*][[gyroradius (radius of the circular movement of an electrically charged particle in a magnetic field)|​]] Larmor formula[*][[Larmor formula (formula used to calculate the total power radiated by a non relativistic point charge as it accelerates)|​]] Q10380298[*]​
Premii	Membru al Societății Regale[*]​ (1892) Medalia Copley (1921)[4] Royal Medal (1915) Premiul Poncelet[*]​ (1918) De Morgan Medal[*][[De Morgan Medal (most prestigious award of the London Mathematical Society)|​]] (1914) premiul Smith[*]​ (1880) Bakerian Lecture[*][[Bakerian Lecture (one of the premier medals of the Royal Society that recognizes exceptional and outstanding science)|​]] (1909) premiul Adams[*]​ (1899) Knight Bachelor[*][[Knight Bachelor (title granted to a man who has been knighted by the British monarch but not inducted as a member of one of the organised orders of chivalry)|​]] (1909) Doctor of Civil Law[*][[Doctor of Civil Law (university conferred law degree or awarded honorary doctorate)|​]] () Doctor of Science[*][[Doctor of Science (doctoral academic research degree)|​]] Legum Doctor[*][[Legum Doctor (university conferred law degree or awarded honorary doctorate)|​]]
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Joseph Larmor (n. 11 iulie 1857, Belfast, Regatul Unit al Marii Britanii și Irlandei – d. 19 mai 1942, Holywood^⁠(d), Irlanda de Nord, Regatul Unit) a fost un fizician britanic cu contribuții in electromagnetism.

Opere

• 1887, "On the direct applications of first principles in the theory of partial differential equations," Proceedings of the Royal Society.
• 1891, "On the theory of electrodynamics," Proceedings of the Royal Society.
• 1892, "On the theory of electrodynamics, as affected by the nature of the mechanical stresses in excited dielectrics," Proceedings of the Royal Society.
• 1893-97, "Dynamical Theory of the Electric and Luminiferous Medium," Proceedings of the Royal Society; Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. Series of 3 papers containing Larmor's physical theory of the universe.
• 1894, "Least action as the fundamental formulation in dynamics and physics," Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society.
• 1896, "The influence of a magnetic field on radiation frequency," Proceedings of the Royal Society.
• 1896, "On the absolute minimum of optical deviation by a prism," Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society.
• Larmor, J. (1897), „On a Dynamical Theory of the Electric and Luminiferous Medium, Part 3, Relations with material media”, Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc., 190: 205–300, doi:10.1098/rsta.1897.0020 ; Containing the Lorentz transformations on p. 229.
• 1898, "Note on the complete scheme of electrodynamic equations of a moving material medium, and electrostriction," Proceedings of the Royal Society.
• 1898, "On the origin of magneto-optic rotation," Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society.
• Larmor, J. (1900), Aether and Matter, Cambridge University Press ; Containing the Lorentz transformations on p. 174.
• 1903, "On the electrodynamic and thermal relations of energy of magnetisation," Proceedings of the Royal Society.
• 1907, "Aether" in Encyclopædia Britannica, 11th ed. London.
• 1908, "William Thomson, Baron Kelvin of Largs. 1824-1907" (Obituary). Proceedings of the Royal Society.
• 1924, "On Editing Newton," Nature.
• 1927, "Newtonian time essential to astronomy," Nature.
• 1929, "Mathematical and Physical Papers. Cambridge Univ. Press.

Larmor a supervizat publicarea lucrărilor complete ale lui George Stokes, James Thomson și William Thomson.

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Bibliografie

• Macrossan, M. N. "A note on relativity before Einstein", British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 37 (1986): 232-234.
• Warwick, Andrew, "On the Role of the FitzGerald-Lorentz Contraction Hypothesis in the Development of Joseph Larmor's Electronic Theory of Matter". Archive for History of Exact Sciences 43 (1991): 29-91.
• Darrigol, O. (1994), „The Electron Theories of Larmor and Lorentz: A Comparative Study”, Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences, 24: 265–336 

Legături externe

• "A very short biography of Joseph Larmor"
• "Ether and field theories in the late 19th century" At VictorianWeb: History of science in the Victorian era
• "Papers of Sir Joseph Larmor". Janus, University of Cambridge.