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RefNoMS/603/8/96
Previous numbers1434
LevelItem
TitleLetter from E A [Edward Arthur] Milne, 19 Northmoor Road, Oxford, to [Joseph] Larmor
CreatorMilne; (Edward) Arthur (1896-1950); British astrophyicist and cosmologist
RecipientLarmor; Sir Joseph (1857-1942); Irish theoretical physicist
Date18 January 1933
DescriptionLarmor's 'splendid' two volumes arrived. Coincidentally, he had been reading Larmor's introduction to Kelvin's papers the day before, aloud to his wife, as an exampe of what to aim for. Milne has been trying to develop his solution to the cosmological problem, with some mistakes and false starts. His long paper is about to come out and he will sent Larmor a copy of it. He is clear that the distribution of matter and motion is not a dynamical or gravitational problem - these must be invented to fit the distribution. H ehas made some progress, he thinks, but less than he would like. He saw something of [Albert] Einstein in Germany, finding him not easy to talk to, interrupting before the point is reached. Einstein is going to America 'after an undiginified squabble with a league of patriotic American ladies' who wished to bar him. Milne also saw [Walter] Nernst, soon to retire, and occupied with an electric piano of his own invention.
Extent4p.
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionInk on paper
AccessStatusOpen
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