28 Facts About Joseph Larmor

Sir Joseph Larmor was an Irish mathematician and physicist who made breakthroughs in the understanding of electricity, dynamics, thermodynamics, and the electron theory of matter.

Joseph Larmor was born in Magheragall in County Antrim, the son of Hugh Larmor, a Belfast shopkeeper and his wife, Anna Wright.

Joseph Larmor subsequently studied at St John's College, Cambridge, where in 1880 he was Senior Wrangler and Smith's Prizeman, getting his MA in 1883.

Joseph Larmor was made an honorary fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1910.

Joseph Larmor was knighted by King Edward VII in 1909.

Joseph Larmor remained in parliament until the 1922 general election, at which point the Irish question had been settled.

Joseph Larmor received an honorary Doctor of Laws from the University of Glasgow in June 1901.

Joseph Larmor received an honorary Doctor in Science from Trinity College Dublin in 1903.

Joseph Larmor was elected an International Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1903, an International Member of the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1908, and an International Member of the American Philosophical Society in 1913.

Joseph Larmor was awarded the Poncelet Prize for 1918 by the French Academy of Sciences.

Joseph Larmor was a Plenary Speaker in 1920 at the ICM at Strasbourg and an Invited Speaker at the ICM in 1924 in Toronto and at the ICM in 1928 in Bologna.

Joseph Larmor died in Holywood, County Down on 19 May 1942.

Joseph Larmor proposed that the aether could be represented as a homogeneous fluid medium which was perfectly incompressible and elastic.

Joseph Larmor united Lord Kelvin's model of spinning gyrostats with this theory.

Joseph Larmor held that matter consisted of particles moving in the aether.

Joseph Larmor believed the source of electric charge was a "particle".

Joseph Larmor held that the flow of charged particles constitutes the current of conduction.

Joseph Larmor calculated the rate of energy radiation from an accelerating electron.

Joseph Larmor explained the splitting of the spectral lines in a magnetic field by the oscillation of electrons.

Joseph Larmor created the first solar system model of the atom in 1897.

Joseph Larmor postulated the proton, calling it a "positive electron".

Joseph Larmor said the destruction of this type of atom making up matter "is an occurrence of infinitely small probability".

In 1919, Joseph Larmor proposed sunspots are self-regenerative dynamo action on the Sun's surface.

Joseph Larmor obtained the full Lorentz transformation in 1900 by inserting into his expression of local time such that, and as before and.

Joseph Larmor however did not possess the correct velocity transformations, which include the addition of velocities law, which were later discovered by Henri Poincare.

Joseph Larmor was opposed to the spacetime interpretation of the Lorentz transformation in special relativity because he continued to believe in an absolute aether.

Joseph Larmor was critical of the curvature of space of general relativity, to the extent that he claimed that an absolute time was essential to astronomy.

Joseph Larmor edited the collected works of George Stokes, James Thomson and William Thomson.