Horace Lamb
Horace Lamb | |
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Horace Lamb in 1885 | |
| Born | 27 November 1849 |
| 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) |
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| Academic advisors | James Clerk Maxwell George Gabriel Stokes |
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Sir Horace Lamb (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.