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Sir Horace Lamb, F.R.S - Nature
HORACE LAMB was born at Stockport in 1849. At Stockport Grammar School, he had the good fortune to come under a sound and kindly scholar named Hamilton, ...
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Notes - Nature
The Rumford medal to the Hon. Charles Algernon Parsons, for his success in the application of the steam turbine to industrial purposes, and for its recent extension to navigation. A Royal medal ...
A Treatise on the Mathematical Theory of the Motion of Fluids - Nature
A Treatise on the Mathematical Theory of the Motion of Fluids. By Horace Lamb, formerly Fellow and Assistant Tutor of Trinity College, Cambridge; Professor ...
A Comprehensive Fundamental Electrical Formula - Nature
Rollo Appleyard's letter in NATURE of September 17 that Sir Horace Lamb had expressed the desirability of dispensing with the duality of electricity and ...
British Association Seismological Committee - Nature
DURING the past year, the Committee has lost two of its members, Sir Horace Lamb and Prof. H. M. Macdonald. Two former members, Sir Alfred Ewing and Sir ...
Societies and Academies - Nature
The experiment referred to was shown by Froude at the British meeting of the British Association in 1875, and one of the deductions drawn from it was that in a viscous flow the character of ...
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English mathematician
Sir Horace Lamb FRS was a British applied mathematician and author of several influential texts on classical physics, among them Hydrodynamics and Dynamical Theory of Sound. Both of these books remain in print. Wikipedia