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Horace Lamb

English mathematician (*1849 - †1934) · United Kingdom · Academics · Died at 85

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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.

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1934Died4 December 19341923Copley MedalAward1911De Morgan MedalAward1902Royal MedalAward1884Fellow of the Royal SocietyAward1872Smith's PrizeAward1849Born29 November 1849

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Copley Medal1923
De Morgan Medal1911
Royal Medal1902
Fellow of the Royal Society1884
Smith's Prize1872

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Country
United Kingdom
Category
Academics
Type
Academic
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1849 to 1934 · aged 85

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