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Joseph Larmor blue plaque

Blue plaque
Joseph Larmor blue plaque
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Antrim Road still carries the ghost of Larmor’s equations, written in air before ink. A blue plaque marks the house where mathematics stopped being a game and became a weapon for seeing inside light. Ulster History Circle set the words in stone because forgetting would be a crime.
This blue commemorative plaque records: Sir Joseph Larmor 1857-1942 mathematical physicist lived here Recorded plaque organisation: Ulster History Circle.
Sir Joseph Larmor was a prominent mathematical physicist who made significant contributions to the theory of electrical phenomena and the electron theory; he served as the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University.

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