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British fluid dynamicist who published a classic text entitled Hydrodynamics. At a meeting of the British
Association in London in 1932, he is reputed to have said, "I am an old man now, and when I die and go to Heaven there
are two matters on which I hope for enlightenment. One is quantum electrodynamics  and the other is the
turbulent motion of fluids. And about the former I am really rather optimistic" (Tabor 1989,
p. 187). A very similar quote, however, is also attributed to Heisenberg.
Additional biographies: MacTutor (St. Andrews)
Lamb, H. The Dynamical Theory of Sound. London: E. Arnold, 1910.
Lamb, H. Dynamics, 2nd ed. Cambridge: University Press, 1923.
Lamb, H. Higher Mechanics, 2nd ed. Cambridge, England: University Press, 1929.
Lamb, H. Hydrodynamics, 6th ed. New York: Dover, 1945.
Lamb, H. Infinitesimal Calculus. London: Cambridge University Press, 1920.
Lamb, H. Statics, Including Hydrostatics and the Elements of the Theory of Elasticity, 3rd ed. Cambridge, England:
Cambridge University Press, 1928.
Tabor, M. Chaos and Integrability in Nonlinear Dynamics: An Introduction. New York: Wiley, 1989.
© 1996-2007 Eric W. Weisstein
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