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Larmor, Sir Joseph (1857-1942) Knight, theoretical physicist File
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Correspondence and Articles

Fragmentary correspondence, newspaper articles, reprints of articles (mainly from Nature).

Larmor, Sir Joseph (1857-1942) Knight, theoretical physicist

Notes

JL's late (c.1939-41) notes (very difficult to read) and some connected articles, some of which evidently intended for publication in Nature. Contents very diverse and discursive. All written in JL's retirement in Holywood, Co. Down. Also includes correspondence relating to the acquisition of the papers by J. S. Boys Smith and others.

Larmor, Sir Joseph (1857-1942) Knight, theoretical physicist

Proofs

Several sets of proofs of JL's contribution to 'James Clerk Maxwell: A Commemoration Volume 1831-1931' (Cambridge, 1931) and various essays on physical and astronomical subjects and related papers.

Larmor, Sir Joseph (1857-1942) Knight, theoretical physicist

Typescripts

Typescripts, with original notes. Main topics: relativity, cosmology, thermodynamics. Mainly quasi-philosophical and non-mathematical.

Larmor, Sir Joseph (1857-1942) Knight, theoretical physicist