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1857–1942 Ireland

Sir Joseph Larmor FRS (11 July 1857 – 19 May 1942) was an Irish physicist and mathematician, known for Larmor precession and other contributions to electromagnetism, classical mechanics, and thermodynamics.

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The direct knowledge of matter that mankind can acquire is a knowledge of the average behaviour and relations of the crowd of molecules.

The evidence is closing in more and more rigorously that the medium which transmits electrical and radiant effects must either completely accompany matter in bulk in its movements or else be entirely independent of such movements.

From remote ages the great question with which, since Newton's time, we have been familiar under the somewhat misleading antithesis of contact versus distance, has engaged speculation,—how is that portions of matter can interact on each other which seem to have no means of connexion between them. Can a body act where it is not?

Aether and Matter (1900)

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