Article ID: CBB001211980

Horace Lamb and the Circumstances of His Appointment at Owens College (2013)

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This paper examines a succession of incidents at a critical juncture in the life of Professor Horace Lamb FRS, a highly regarded classical fluid mechanicist, who, over a period of some 35 years at Manchester, made notable contributions in research, in education and in wise administration at both national and university levels. Drawing on archived documents from the universities of Manchester and Adelaide, the article presents the unusual sequence of events that led to his removing from Adelaide, South Australia, where he had served for nine years as the Elder Professor of Mathematics, to Manchester. In 1885 he was initially appointed to the vacant Chair of Pure Mathematics at Owens College and then, in 1888, as an outcome of his proposal for rearranging professorial responsibilities, to the Beyer Professorship of Pure and Applied Mathematics.

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Authors & Contributors
Ciesielska, Danuta
Santos Del Cerro, Jesús
Sánchez Botero, Clara Helena
Rostistlavov, Dmitrii
Rayner-Canham, Marelene F.
Rayner-Canham, Geoffrey W.
Concepts
Science education and teaching
Mathematics
Universities and colleges
Biographies
Physics
Societies; institutions; academies
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
20th century
16th century
17th century
Places
United States
Spain
England
Silicon Valley (California)
Cracow (Poland)
Scotland
Institutions
Uniwersytet Warszawski
National Society of Black Physicists (United States)
Stanford University
Università di Roma
Oxford University
Cambridge University
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