Horace Lamb

Professor Sir

Horace Lamb

FRS
Professor Sir; Horace Lamb; FRS
	Horace Lamb in 1885
Born	27 November 1849; Stockport, Cheshire, England
Died	4 December 1934 (aged 85); Cambridge, England
Nationality	British
Alma mater	Trinity College, Cambridge
Known for	Lamb vector; Lamb–Oseen vortex; Lamb–Chaplygin dipole; Lamb waves; Lamb surfaces; Skin effect; Volume viscosity
Awards	Smith's Prize (1872); Royal Medal (1902); De Morgan Medal (1911); Copley Medal (1923)
	Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics; Physics; ;
Institutions	University of Cambridge; University of Adelaide; University of Manchester; Royal Society;
Academic advisors	James Clerk Maxwell; George Gabriel Stokes
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Sir Horace Lamb FRS (27 November 1849 – 4 December 1934) 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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