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Joseph Larmor

1857 - 1942

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Sir Joseph Larmor (; 11 July 1857 – 19 May 1942) was an Irish mathematician and physicist who made breakthroughs in the understanding of electricity, dynamics, thermodynamics, and the electron theory of matter. His most influential work was Aether and Matter, a theoretical physics book published in 1900. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Joseph Larmor is the 541st most popular physicist (up from 559th in 2019), the 2,802nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,714th in 2019) and the 60th most popular British Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Joseph Larmor ranks 541 out of 851. Before him are Leona Woods, Ludvig Lorenz, August Beer, Arthur Jeffrey Dempster, William Robert Grove, and Ira Sprague Bowen. After him are Vladimir Steklov, Gerard K. O'Neill, Pief Panofsky, Grote Reber, Gilbert Walker, and John Robison.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1857, Joseph Larmor ranks 88. Before him are Manuel Estrada Cabrera, Louis Dollo, Anita Augspurg, Princess Elisabeth of Anhalt, Gunnar Heiberg, and Filippo Turati. After him are Gustave Lanson, Friedrich von Ingenohl, Henry Dudeney, Princess Elisabeth Anna of Prussia, Gabriela Zapolska, and Otto Stapf. Among people deceased in 1942, Joseph Larmor ranks 140. Before him are Anna Elizabeth Klumpke, Wojciech Kossak, Daniel Alomía Robles, Jack Greenwell, Vladislav Vančura, and Emil von Sauer. After him are Juhan Kukk, Xiao Hong, Gerard Philips, Natalya Kovshova, Fritz Platten, and Charlie Christian.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Joseph Larmor ranks 2,803 out of 8,785. Before him are Edwin Lutyens (1869), Frederick DuCane Godman (1834), Willie Watson (1920), Graeme Souness (1953), Adam Clayton (1960), and Philip Henry Gosse (1810). After him are John Winthrop (1588), Richard Hakluyt (1552), John Terry (1980), Anthony Horowitz (1955), Cuthred of Wessex (750), and Harold Laski (1893).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United Kingdom

Among physicists born in United Kingdom, Joseph Larmor ranks 60. Before him are Alfred Ewing (1855), Frederick Guthrie (1833), G. M. B. Dobson (1889), John Leslie (1766), Paul Davies (1946), and William Robert Grove (1811). After him are Gilbert Walker (1868), John Robison (1739), William Astbury (1898), Ernest Marsden (1889), Ralph H. Fowler (1889), and John Lennard-Jones (1894).

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