Joseph Larmor

Sir Joseph Larmor FRS FRSE
Larmour, c. 1920
Born	(1857-07-11)11 July 1857 Magheragall, County Antrim, Ireland
Died	19 May 1942(1942-05-19) (aged 84) Holywood, County Down, Northern Ireland[1]
Alma mater	Royal Belfast Academical Institution Queen's University Belfast St John's College, Cambridge
Known for	Larmor precession Larmor radius Larmor formula
Awards	Smith's Prize (1880) FRS (1892) Adams Prize (1899) De Morgan Medal (1914) Royal Medal (1915) Copley Medal (1921)
Scientific career
Fields	Physics
Institutions	St John's College, Cambridge Queen's College, Galway
Academic advisors	Edward Routh
Doctoral students	Kwan-ichi Terazawa
14th Lucasian Professor of Mathematics
In office 1903–1932
Preceded by	George Stokes
Succeeded by	Paul Dirac

Sir Joseph Larmor FRS FRSE (11 July 1857 – 19 May 1942) was an Irish^[2] physicist and mathematician who made breakthroughs in the understanding of electricity, dynamics, thermodynamics, and the electron theory of matter. His most influential work was Aether and Matter, a theoretical physics book published in 1900.