| RefNo | MS/603/7/103 |
| Previous numbers | 1133 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Letter from Horace Lamb, 6 Wilbraham Road, Fellowfield, Manchester, to [Joseph] Larmor |
| Creator | Lamb; Sir Horace (1849-1934); British mathematician |
| Recipient | Larmor; Sir Joseph (1857-1942); Irish theoretical physicist |
| Date | 9 February 1910 |
| Description | He does not think there need be much delay in the Hopkins award. [Ernest William] Hobson's papers on spherical harmonics are anterior to the named period, but that may not matter. If preference is given to applied mathematics, then [Augustus Edward Hough] Love and [James Hopwood] Jeans have important papers in the 1901-3 period. The latter would have a strong case. Larmor's letter gave the first hint of the true reason for [Andrew Russell] Forsyth's resignation, but there was a word that Lamb could not decipher, and the whole thing is mysterious; it seems 'an inexplicable disaster'. He hopes the Trinity people will waive the resignation. On Royal Society candidates, the only competition seems to be among the physicists. [Ernest William] Barnes and [Frederick] Soddy have striong claims, and he briefly discusses [Alfred] Fowler, [Godfrey Harold] Hardy, [Louis Napoleon George] Filon, and [Richard Cockburn] Maclaurin. Among engineers, he favours [George Gerald] Stoney. [William Ernest] Dalby is astute but Lamb does not think much of him. |
| Extent | 4p. |
| Format | Manuscript |
| PhysicalDescription | Ink on paper |
| AccessStatus | Open |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA8246 | Lamb; Sir; Horace (1849 - 1934) | 1849 - 1934 |