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Sir Joseph Larmor: Quick Facts

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Born July 11, 1857
Died May 19, 1942 (aged 84)
Awards And Honors Copley Medal (1921)
Subjects Of Study Larmor precession
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Sir George Gabriel Stokes, 1st Baronet
British mathematician and physicist
Ernest Rutherford
Ernest Rutherford
British physicist
P.A.M. Dirac
P.A.M. Dirac
English physicist
J.J. Thomson
J.J. Thomson
British physicist
John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh
Lord Rayleigh
British scientist
Bragg, Sir Lawrence
Sir Lawrence Bragg
British physicist
Sir William Bragg
Sir William Bragg
British physicist
Peierls, Sir Rudolf Ernst; Dirac, P.A.M.; Pauli, Wolfgang
Sir Rudolf Ernst Peierls
British physicist
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Sir Charles Frank
English physicist
James Chadwick
James Chadwick
British physicist
Peter Higgs
Peter Higgs
British physicist
Stephen Hawking, 2007
Stephen Hawking
British physicist
Airy, c. 1877
Sir George Biddell Airy
English astronomer
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Patrick Blackett
British physicist
C.T.R. Wilson, 1927
C.T.R. Wilson
British physicist
William Crookes
Sir William Crookes
British chemist
Nevill F. Mott
Sir Nevill F. Mott
British physicist
Joule, James Prescott
James Prescott Joule
English physicist
James Dewar
Sir James Dewar
British chemist and physicist
Charles Wheatstone
Sir Charles Wheatstone
British physicist

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