Author:Joseph Larmor

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Sir Joseph Larmor (1857–1942)

An Irish-British physicist and mathematician

Sir Joseph Larmor

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This author wrote articles for the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.
Articles written by this author are designated in EB1911 by the initials " J. L.* "

Works

• On a Dynamical Theory of the Electric and Luminiferous Medium, Part 3, Relations with material media (1897, Sections 13-16)
• Aether and Matter (1900, Ch. 10-11)
• On the ascertained Absence of Effects of Motion through the Aether, in relation to the Constitution of Matter, and on the FitzGerald-Lorentz Hypothesis (1904)
• Introduction to H. Poincaré's "Science and Hypothesis" (1905)
• “Aether” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.
• “Energetics” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.
• “Energy” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911. (in part)
• “Radiation, Theory of” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.
• “Radiometer” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.
• “Units, Dimensions of” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.
• How could a Rotating Body such as the Sun become a Magnet? (1919) in Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science 87th Meeting, pp. 159-160

Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1923. The author died in 1942, so works by this author are also in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 60 years or less. Works by this author may also be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.