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- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 23 March 1897
- Died
- 30 March 1995
- Place of birth
- Dublin
- Place of death
- Dublin
- Sex or gender
- male
- Given name
- John
- Family name
- Synge
- Father
- Edward Synge
- Mother
- Ellen Frances Price
- Field of work
- mathematics, theoretical physics, theory of relativity, differential geometry, mechanics, geometrical optics
- Occupation
- mathematician, physicist, university teacher, writer
- Position held
- chairperson
- Citizenship
- Ireland
- Native language
- English
- birth name
- John Lighton Synge
- described by source
- Physicists: Biographical Dictionary
- doctoral student
- Werner Israel, Chien Wei-zang, Byron Alexander Griffith, Albert John Coleman, Vincent G. M. Hart, G. E. Hay, Julian Dermott McCrea, James Rudsdale Pounder, James J McMahon, Takaaki Yukawa, G. E. Hay
- educated at
- Trinity College, Dublin, St. Andrew's College
- employer
- University of Toronto, Trinity College, Dublin, University of Toronto, Ohio State University, Carnegie Institute of Technology, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies
- languages spoken, written or signed
- English
- name in native language
- John Lighton Synge
- student of
- Matthew Wyatt Joseph Fry
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