# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/horace-lamb
# Generated: 2026-09-07T20:20:46.818Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/horace-lamb"
name: "Horace Lamb"
slug: "horace-lamb"
description: "Sir Horace Lamb was a British applied mathematician and author of several influential texts on classical physics, among them Hydrodynamics (1895) and Dynamical Theory of Sound (1910). Both of these books remain in print. The word vorticity was invented by Lamb in 1916."
tagline: "English mathematician (*1849 – †1934)"
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birthDate: "1849-11-29"
deathDate: "1934-12-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump