Larmor, Sir Joseph

Larmor, Sir Joseph

▪ Irish physicist
born July 11, 1857, Magheragall, County Antrim, Ire.
died May 19, 1942, Holywood, County Down

      Irish physicist, the first to calculate the rate at which energy is radiated by an accelerated electron, and the first to explain the splitting of spectrum lines by a magnetic field. His theories were based on the belief that matter consists entirely of electric particles moving in the ether.

      Educated in Belfast and at Cambridge, Larmor taught at Queen's College, Galway (1880–85), and at Cambridge (1885–1932). Knighted in 1909, he represented his university in the British Parliament from 1911 to 1922.

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