Horace Lamb

Sir Horace Lamb FRS (November 29th 1849 - December 4th 1934) is a British mathematician and author of several influential books in physics, Hydrodynamics (1879) and Dynamical Theory off Sound (1910) both still nowadays published.

He studies with the Stockport Grammar School and the Université of Cambridge. Its professors included James Clerk Maxwell and George Gabriel Stokes. In 1883 it publishes a paper in the Philosophical Transactions off the Royal Society applying the Maxwell's equations to the problem of the flow of an alternative course in a cylindrical driver, the first study of what will be called later the Effet of skin.

In 1932 in a speech in front of the British Association for the Advancement off Science it expresses way picturesque the difficulty in explaining and to study the Turbulence S in the fluids “I am an old man now, and when I died and would go to the paradise it on there two subjects on which I will like to be enlightened. One is the quantum electrodynamic , and the other the turbulent flow of Fluide S. And in connection with the first I am rather optimistic”

Lamb was professor with the Victoria University off Manchester. In 1884 it is elected member of the Royal Society, of 1902 to 1904 it chairs the London Mathematical Society. It receives the royal Médaille in 1902, the Médaille Copley in 1923 and the Médaille De Morgan in 1911. A Cratère on the the Moon bears its name.

References

Paul J. Nahin, Oliver Heaviside: Wise in Loneliness , (1988), IEEE Near, New York, ISBN 0879422386

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