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Lamb, Horace (1849 - 1934)

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Born: 27 November 1849 Stockport, Cheshire, England. Died: 4 December 1934 Cambridge, England.

(Sir) Horace Lamb was the founding Professor of Mathematics, University of Adelaide 1876-85 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.

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'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 ]

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