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

Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science
Volume: 67, no. 2
Issue: 2
Pages: 139-158
Publication date: 2013
Language: English

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Universities and colleges Fluid mechanics Biographies Mathematics Science education and teaching 19th century Lamb, Horace

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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