Horace Lamb, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Horace Lamb

English mathematician

Date of Birth: 27-Nov-1849

Place of Birth: Stockport, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 04-Dec-1934

Profession: physicist, mathematician, university teacher

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Sir Horace Lamb (27 November 1849 – 4 December 1934) was an English applied mathematician and author of several influential texts on classical physics, among them Hydrodynamics (1895) and Dynamical Theory of Sound (1910).
Both of these books remain in print.
The word vorticity was coined by Lamb in 1916.