• Thumbnail for Horace Lamb
    Sir Horace Lamb FRS (27 November 1849 – 4 December 1934) was a British applied mathematician and author of several influential texts on classical physics...
    16 KB (1,601 words) - 06:06, 6 May 2024
  • Hubert Horace Lamb (22 September 1913 in Bedford – 28 June 1997 in Holt, Norfolk) was an English climatologist who founded the Climatic Research Unit...
    13 KB (1,527 words) - 20:12, 2 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Lamb waves
    direction perpendicular to the plate. In 1917, the English mathematician Horace Lamb published his classic analysis and description of acoustic waves of this...
    25 KB (3,737 words) - 15:42, 25 February 2024
  • dynamics, Lamb vector is the cross product of vorticity vector and velocity vector of the flow field, named after the physicist Horace Lamb. The Lamb vector...
    2 KB (376 words) - 12:46, 2 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Lamb–Oseen vortex
    fluid dynamics, the Lamb–Oseen vortex models a line vortex that decays due to viscosity. This vortex is named after Horace Lamb and Carl Wilhelm Oseen...
    4 KB (793 words) - 23:21, 27 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for Lamb (crater)
    Australe. To the east of Lamb is Lamb G, a somewhat smaller, lava-flooded formation. The crater is named after Sir Horace Lamb, an English mathematician...
    5 KB (415 words) - 02:04, 26 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Henry Lamb
    Lamb was born in Adelaide, Australia, the son of Sir Horace Lamb FRS, who was the professor of mathematics at Adelaide University. When Horace Lamb was...
    11 KB (1,089 words) - 06:59, 23 August 2023
  • Thumbnail for LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae
    Donald Greene was a partner as well, and made a strong stand in the firm Horace Lamb joined the partnership in 1934 to enhance its expertise in a wider variety...
    7 KB (705 words) - 00:35, 26 June 2022
  • Thumbnail for Department of Mathematics, University of Manchester
    have worked at the precursor departments to the department. In 1885 Horace Lamb, famous for his contribution to fluid dynamics accepted a chair at the...
    13 KB (1,612 words) - 10:19, 11 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Norman Lamb
    Lamb was born in Watford, Hertfordshire, the son of climatologist Professor Hubert Lamb and the great-grandson of the mathematician Sir Horace Lamb....
    22 KB (1,914 words) - 19:25, 1 April 2024
  • the equation of motion. Volume viscosity was introduced in 1879 by Sir Horace Lamb in his famous work Hydrodynamics. Although relatively obscure in the...
    11 KB (1,663 words) - 04:48, 3 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Skin effect
    long-distance power transmission. The effect was first described in a paper by Horace Lamb in 1883 for the case of spherical conductors, and was generalized to...
    47 KB (6,447 words) - 15:53, 7 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for RV Sir Horace Lamb
    RV Sir Horace Lamb was a Navy owned former mine warfare vessel assigned to the Columbia University, Geophysical Field Station research facility in Bermuda...
    18 KB (1,877 words) - 17:18, 17 March 2023
  • Street, New York City, where it shared offices with Niagara Hudson Power. Horace Lamb joined the partnership in 1934 to enhance its expertise in a wider variety...
    23 KB (2,496 words) - 06:38, 4 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Physics
    in biological systems. In the 1932 Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, Horace Lamb said: I am an old man now, and when I die and go to heaven there are...
    90 KB (10,131 words) - 12:06, 10 May 2024
  • British mathematician Horace Lamb and Elizabeth Foot, his siblings included the painter Henry Lamb and the archaeologist Dorothy Lamb. His nephew was the...
    3 KB (191 words) - 03:00, 13 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for John Dalton
    Henry Edward Schunck (IV) James Cosmo Melvill Prof. Sir Horace Lamb 20th Century Prof. Sir Horace Lamb Charles Bailey Prof. Sir William Boyd Dawkins Sir William...
    49 KB (5,448 words) - 16:46, 29 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Lamb–Chaplygin dipole
    solution to the two-dimensional Euler equations. The model is named after Horace Lamb and Sergey Alexeyevich Chaplygin, who independently discovered this flow...
    4 KB (612 words) - 10:35, 22 March 2023
  • Mathematics to which Horace Lamb had been appointed in 1885 became the Beyer Professorship of Mathematics and remained so until Lamb's retirement in 1920...
    4 KB (444 words) - 00:07, 3 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Michael Polanyi
    Henry Edward Schunck (IV) James Cosmo Melvill Prof. Sir Horace Lamb 20th Century Prof. Sir Horace Lamb Charles Bailey Prof. Sir William Boyd Dawkins Sir William...
    32 KB (3,312 words) - 11:40, 14 February 2024
  • an answer for the first." A similar witticism has been attributed to Horace Lamb in a speech to the British Association for the Advancement of Science:...
    44 KB (5,400 words) - 20:51, 14 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for James Clerk Maxwell
    College, London University of Cambridge Academic advisors William Hopkins Notable students George Chrystal Horace Lamb John Henry Poynting Signature...
    85 KB (8,856 words) - 20:36, 16 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Arthur Schuster
    Applied Mathematics at University of Manchester 1881–1888 Succeeded by Horace Lamb Preceded by Balfour Stewart Langworthy Professor at University of Manchester...
    20 KB (1,967 words) - 20:36, 10 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for James Prescott Joule
    Henry Edward Schunck (IV) James Cosmo Melvill Prof. Sir Horace Lamb 20th Century Prof. Sir Horace Lamb Charles Bailey Prof. Sir William Boyd Dawkins Sir William...
    32 KB (3,481 words) - 15:49, 3 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Manservant and Maidservant
    household of Horace Lamb, sadist, skinflint, and tyrant, a man whose children fear and hate him and whose wife is planning to elope [with Horace's cousin]...
    8 KB (1,095 words) - 13:18, 13 January 2024
  • and vortex surfaces, named after the physicist Horace Lamb. Lamb surfaces are orthogonal to the Lamb vector ω × u {\displaystyle {\boldsymbol {\omega...
    1 KB (156 words) - 14:48, 30 August 2023
  • London Group Horace Lamb, British hydrodynamicist and mathematician Hubert Lamb, British climatologist Jan Lamb, Hong Kong DJ and singer Jake Lamb (born 1990)...
    8 KB (950 words) - 21:47, 2 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Deutsche Physik
    scientists, namely William Bragg, William Crookes, Alexander Fleming, Horace Lamb, Oliver Lodge, William Ramsay, Lord Rayleigh, and J. J. Thomson. In 1915...
    14 KB (1,715 words) - 12:39, 9 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Centripetal force
    on either side of P, as Q and R approach P. See the online text by Lamb: Horace Lamb (1897). An Elementary Course of Infinitesimal Calculus. University...
    52 KB (7,791 words) - 06:40, 5 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sydney Chapman (mathematician)
    department headed by Osborne Reynolds. Chapman was taught mathematics by Horace Lamb, the Beyer professor of mathematics, and J. E. Littlewood, who came from...
    16 KB (1,422 words) - 08:08, 12 May 2024