| RefNo | MS/603/7/283 |
| Previous numbers | 1311 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Letter from O J [Oliver Joseph] Lodge, Mariemont, Edgbaston, to [Joseph] Larmor |
| Creator | Lodge; Sir Oliver Joseph (1851-1940); British physicist |
| Recipient | Larmor; Sir Joseph (1857-1942); Irish theoretical physicist |
| Date | 27 July 1918 |
| Description | He thanks Larmor for his interesting letter and congratulates him on receiving the Ponecelet Prize. He is amazed that Larmor gave the money back, which he thinks 'extaordinarily liberal' but a 'doubtful example'. He wonders if Larmor would give away a Nobel Prize, recalling that Rayleigh did, to Cambridge. 'Scientia' is bothering Lodge to write something. He agrees with Larmor about [Henri] Poincaré, his influence on physics was mischievous, encouraging philosophers ato think that nothing was definite. He knew from [Andrew Russell] Forsyth that he was considering 'a howling swell' in Pure Mathermatics, but Lodge felt hostile to his literary books. Watson has been in Birmingham house or flat hunting. In a postscript, Lodge explains that when he said infinitely thin vortices need not advance, he was thinking of rings, not columnar ones. |
| Extent | 5p. |
| Format | Manuscript |
| PhysicalDescription | Ink on paper |
| AccessStatus | Open |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA8070 | Lodge; Sir; Oliver Joseph (1851 - 1940); physicist | 1851 - 1940 |