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Papers of Joseph Larmor: File 5, 1870 - 1920

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Reference Code: GBR/0279/CPS 15/3/5

Scope and Contents

This file contains chiefly miscellaneous notes: undated, but some note the book in the Larmor Collection in which they were found.
The file also contains proofs for some short articles by Joseph Larmor, including the following: ‘Escapements and Quanta’, 1921; ‘On Non-Radiating Atoms’, 1921; and ‘The Mechanics of the Ascent of Sap in Trees’ [no date];
Also: menu for a dinner at Peterhouse, 29 October 1902, on which is scribbled a note reading’ A propos of total internal reflection - Do you remember Airey’s pathetic remark (re [symbol indicating 'the square root of minus 1'], which Fresnel had done). It is improbable that this can have no meaning. What can the meaning be?’; invitation to Larmor to a dinner at King’s College 5 June [no year given]; and a letter from George Kale to Joseph Larmor, 1929, thanking him for his ‘superb great volumes’.

Dates

  • Creation: 1870 - 1920

Creator

Extent

1 file(s) : paper

Language of Materials

English

Originator(s)

Larmor, Joseph

Finding aid date

2015-05-18 09:48:24+00:00

Repository Details

Part of the Cambridge Philosophical Society Repository

Contact:
CPS Archivist, Joan Bullock-Anderson
c/o Sedgwick Museum Archives, A G Brighton Building
Madingley Rise
Cambridge CB3 0UD