Horace Lamb and the circumstances of his appointment at Owens College

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 nat...

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Published in:Notes and records of the Royal Society of London 2013-06, Vol.67 (2), p.139-158
Main Author: Launder, Brian
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Applied mathematics
Archives
College mathematics
Colleges
Henry Taylor
Horace Lamb
Hydrodynamics
Mathematics
Owens College
Physics
Pure mathematics
Universities
University Of Adelaide
Upper houses
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Summary: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.
ISSN:0035-9149
1743-0178
DOI:10.1098/rsnr.2012.0047