Person
Lamb, Horace (1849 - 1934)
FRS
- Born
- 27 November 1849
Stockport, Cheshire, England - Died
- 4 December 1934
Cambridge, England - Occupation
- Mathematician
Summary
Sir Horace Lamb was the founding Professor of Mathematics, University of Adelaide 1876-1885 after which he became Professor at Owen's College Manchester 1885-1920. His treatise on the motion of fluids was highly regarded and ran into many editions.
Details
Chronology
- 1876
- Career event - Elected as a Member, Adelaide Philosophical Society
- 1876 - 1885
- Career Position - Foundation Professor of Mathematics, University of Adelaide
- 1883 - 1884
- Career Position - President, Royal Society of South Australia
- 1885 - 1920
- Career Position - Professor, Owen's College, Manchester, United Kingdom
Related entries
Archival resources
Barr Smith Library, Special Collections, The University of Adelaide
- Horace Lamb - Records, 1885 - 1920; Barr Smith Library, Special Collections, The University of Adelaide. Details
The University of Adelaide Archives
- Horace Lamb - Records, 1876 - 1885; The University of Adelaide Archives. Details
Published resources
Books
- Radok, Rainer, A Profile of Horace Lamb Arranged by R. Radok and S. Radok (Townsville: James Cook University on North Queensland, Mathematics Department, 1980). Details
Book Sections
- Potts, R. B., 'Lamb, Sir Horace (1849-1934)' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 5: 1851 - 1890 K-Q, Douglas Pike, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1974), pp. 54-55. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A050061b.htm. Details
Journal Articles
- Jenkin, J. G.; and Home, R. W., 'Horace Lamb and Early Physics Teaching in Australia', Historical Records of Australian Science, 10 (4) (1995), 349-380. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR9951040349. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1627897. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/46838786. Details
- 'Lamb, Horace (1849-1934)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1087823. Details
Resource Sections
- 'Lamb, Horace', in Physics in Australia to 1945, R.W. Home, with the assistance of Paula J. Needham, Australian Science Archives Project, June 1995, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/physics/P000554p.htm. Details
See also
- Serle, Percival, Dictionary of Australian biography (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1949). Details
McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 2 March 2018
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