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Sir Joseph Larmor
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Born July 11, 1857
Died May 19, 1942 (aged 84)
Awards And Honors Copley Medal (1921)
Subjects Of Study Larmor precession
P.A.M. Dirac
P.A.M. Dirac
English physicist
J.J. Thomson
J.J. Thomson
British physicist
Sir George Gabriel Stokes, 1st Baronet
British mathematician and physicist
Ernest Rutherford
Ernest Rutherford
British physicist
Lord Rayleigh, engraving by R. Cottot.
Lord Rayleigh
British scientist
Bragg, Sir Lawrence
Sir Lawrence Bragg
British physicist
Sir William Bragg
Sir William Bragg
British physicist
Peierls, Sir Rudolf Ernst; Dirac, P.A.M.; Pauli, Wolfgang
Sir Rudolf Ernst Peierls
British physicist
Sir Charles Frank
English physicist
James Chadwick
James Chadwick
British physicist
Peter Higgs
Peter Higgs
British physicist
Stephen Hawking
Stephen Hawking
British physicist
Airy, c. 1877
Sir George Biddell Airy
British astronomer
Patrick Blackett
British physicist
C.T.R. Wilson, 1927
C.T.R. Wilson
British physicist
Crookes
Sir William Crookes
British chemist
Sir Nevill F. Mott at the ceremony with his Nobel Prize for Physics, 1977.
Sir Nevill F. Mott
British physicist
Joule, James Prescott
James Prescott Joule
English physicist
British chemist and physicist James Dewar
Sir James Dewar
British scientist
Charles Wheatstone.
Sir Charles Wheatstone
British physicist

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