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Joseph Larmor

1857 - 1942

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Sir Joseph Larmor (; 11 July 1857 – 19 May 1942) was an Irish 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 197,132 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia. Joseph Larmor is the 559th most popular physicist (down from 463rd in 2019), the 2,714th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,169th in 2019) and the 60th most popular British Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Joseph Larmor ranks 559 out of 851. Before him are Georg Hermann Quincke, Albert Betz, Leopoldo Nobili, Augusto Righi, John G. Trump, and Paul Davies. After him are Pierre Weiss, Alexander Markovich Polyakov, Matvei Bronstein, Frank J. Tipler, Emil Warburg, and Woldemar Voigt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1857, Joseph Larmor ranks 97. Before him are George Gissing, Albert Ballin, Manuel Estrada Cabrera, Anita Augspurg, Ivo Vojnović, and Georges Leygues. After him are Anna Kuliscioff, Friedrich von Ingenohl, Alice Pike Barney, Ayub Khan, Helena Westermarck, and Aleksei Evert. Among people deceased in 1942, Joseph Larmor ranks 154. Before him are Mordechai Gebirtig, Jack Greenwell, Adolphe Grisel, Daniel Alomía Robles, Ants Piip, and Natalya Kovshova. After him are Elmer Niklander, Zofia Zamenhof, Mahadev Desai, Wlodimir Ledóchowski, Heinrich Burger, and Nicholas Adontz.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Joseph Larmor ranks 2,714 out of 8,785. Before him are Jeremy Bulloch (1945), Charles Warren (1840), Richard Bright (1789), Harvey Postlethwaite (1944), Eleanor of Scotland (1433), and Simon MacCorkindale (1952). After him are Matthew Locke (1621), John Barnard (1946), Paul Potts (1970), Dennis Stratton (1952), John Rutter (1945), and Brian Connolly (1945).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United Kingdom

Among physicists born in United Kingdom, Joseph Larmor ranks 60. Before him are William Robert Grove (1811), William Edward Ayrton (1847), Ernest Marsden (1889), Ralph H. Fowler (1889), C. P. Snow (1905), and Paul Davies (1946). After him are James David Forbes (1809), Sergey Kapitsa (1928), John Robison (1739), John D. Barrow (1952), John Lennard-Jones (1894), and Michael Green (1946).

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