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- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 27 November 1849, 29 November 1849
- Died
- 4 December 1934
- Place of birth
- Stockport
- Place of death
- Cambridge
- Sex or gender
- male
- Given name
- Horace
- Family name
- Lamb
- Spouse
- Elizabeth Mary Foot
- Field of work
- mathematics, applied mathematics, physics, hydrodynamics, quantum electrodynamics
- Occupation
- mathematician, physicist, university teacher
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- contributed to creative work
- Dictionary of National Biography, Popular Science
- doctoral advisor
- Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet, James Clerk Maxwell
- educated at
- Trinity College, Stockport Grammar School, University of Cambridge, Victoria University of Manchester
- employer
- Victoria University of Manchester, University of Cambridge, University of Adelaide, Trinity College
- languages spoken, written or signed
- English
- member of
- Royal Society, University of Adelaide Council, Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
- notable work
- A treatise on the mathematical theory of the motion of fluids, Hydrodynamics, Vector de Lamb, Lamb–Oseen vortex, Lamb–Chaplygin dipole, Lamb waves
- place of burial
- Ascension Parish Burial Ground
- professorship
- Beyer Chair of Applied Mathematics
- student
- Lorna Swain
- student of
- Thomas Barker, Henry Martyn Taylor
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