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Horace Lamb

Professor Sir
Horace Lamb
FRS
Horace Lamb in 1885
Born(1849-11-27)27 November 1849
Stockport, Cheshire, England
Died4 December 1934(1934-12-04) (aged 85)
Cambridge, England
NationalityBritish
Alma materTrinity College, Cambridge
Known forLamb vector
Lamb–Oseen vortex
Lamb–Chaplygin dipole
Lamb waves
Lamb surfaces
Skin effect
Volume viscosity
AwardsSmith's Prize (1872)
Royal Medal (1902)
De Morgan Medal (1911)
Copley Medal (1923)
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions
Academic advisorsJames Clerk Maxwell[1]
George Gabriel Stokes[2]
Signature

Sir Horace Lamb FRS[3] (27 November 1849 – 4 December 1934[4]) was a British applied mathematician and author of several influential texts on classical physics, among them Hydrodynamics (1895) and Dynamical Theory of Sound (1910).[5] Both of these books remain in print. The word vorticity was invented by Lamb in 1916.[6]

  1. ^ Andrew Warwick, Masters of Theory: Cambridge and the Rise of Mathematical Physics, University of Chicago Press, 2003, p. 325.
  2. ^ Horace Lamb at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ^ Love, A. E. H.; Glazebrook, R. T. (1935). "Sir Horace Lamb. 1849–1934". Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society. 1 (4): 374. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1935.0003.
  4. ^ R. B. Potts, 'Lamb, Sir Horace (1849–1934)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 5, MUP, 1974, pp 54–55. Retrieved 5 Sep 2009
  5. ^ O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F. "Horace Lamb". MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive. University of St Andrews.
  6. ^ Truesdell, C. (1954). The kinematics of vorticity (Vol. 954). Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

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