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Joseph Larmor

1857 - 1942

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Sir Joseph Larmor (11 July 1857 – 19 May 1942) was an Irish and British physicist and mathematician who made breakthroughs in the understanding of electricity, dynamics, thermodynamics, and the electron theory of matter. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joseph Larmor has received more than 175,917 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia. Joseph Larmor is the 463rd most popular physicist (down from 455th in 2019), the 2,175th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,093rd in 2019) and the 54th most popular British Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Joseph Larmor ranks 463 out of 717Before him are Alan Guth, Eric Allin Cornell, Anton Zeilinger, Yuri Orlov, Max Abraham, and Marian Smoluchowski. After him are John Henry Schwarz, Robert Brout, John Canton, Johann Christian Poggendorff, Katharine Burr Blodgett, and Ole Worm.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1857, Joseph Larmor ranks 74Before him are Henry Fairfield Osborn, Léon Charles Thévenin, Princess Elisabeth Anna of Prussia, Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje, James Edward Keeler, and Simon Hollósy. After him are Princess Elisabeth of Anhalt, Gabriela Zapolska, Stojan Protić, Louis Dollo, Alfred Bruneau, and Albert Ballin. Among people deceased in 1942, Joseph Larmor ranks 106Before him are Epitácio Pessoa, Olena Teliha, Kiyoura Keigo, Yakov Perelman, Emma Calvé, and Charlie Christian. After him are Jacques-Émile Blanche, Aurel Stodola, Adolf Mayer, Vladimir Petlyakov, Heinrich Vogeler, and Léon Daudet.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Joseph Larmor ranks 2,175 out of 7,765Before him are Nevil Maskelyne (1732), Ruth Belville (1854), Shane MacGowan (1957), Christine McVie (1943), Reginald Doherty (1872), and William Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford (1768). After him are Norman McLaren (1914), Lewis Gilbert (1920), Edward Cave (1691), John Ford (1586), Nassau William Senior (1790), and Ian Khama (1953).

Among PHYSICISTS In United Kingdom

Among physicists born in United Kingdom, Joseph Larmor ranks 54Before him are John Kerr (1824), Louis Harold Gray (1905), John Dollond (1706), G. M. B. Dobson (1889), William Robert Grove (1811), and Charles Galton Darwin (1887). After him are John Canton (1718), John Leslie (1766), Ernest Marsden (1889), Dennis W. Sciama (1926), Michael Green (1946), and Michael Berry (1941).