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{{short description|Irish physicist and engineer}} ...|url-status=dead }}</ref> ({{IPAc-en|s|k|eɪ|f}}; born 19 May 1928), is an Irish academic engineer and [[physicist]] who carried out pioneering work on the ...

{{Short description|Irish mathematician and theoretical physicist}} ...He was a specialist in [[statistical physics]], [[complex systems]] and [[Irish mythology]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.complexity-coventry.org/people/s ...

...l with the channel's dimensions and slope. It was expanded and modified by Irish engineer [[Robert Manning (engineer)|Robert Manning]] in 1889.<ref name=":0 Once this relationship was established by Chézy, many engineers and physicists (see the below section ''Authors of flow formulas'')<ref name=":3" /><ref n ...

...urnal| last = Papapetrou| first = A | journal = [[Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, Section A]]| volume = 51| pages =191| year =1947}}</ref> These gra [[Category:20th-century Indian physicists]] ...

| journal=Irish Astronomical Journal ...citly used as a [[nondimensionalization]] constant, as is evident from the physicists' expression for the [[fine-structure constant]], written {{math|1=''α'' = ' ...

...ein–Podolsky–Rosen (EPR) paradox]] is a [[thought experiment]] proposed by physicists [[Albert Einstein]], [[Boris Podolsky]] and [[Nathan Rosen]] which argues t {{Main|Bell's theorem}}In 1964, Irish physicist [[John Stewart Bell]] carried the analysis of quantum entanglemen ...

...rce is closely related to the notion of [[absolute rotation]]. In 1707 the Irish bishop [[George Berkeley]] took issue with the notion of [[absolute space]] |By the end of the nineteenth century, some physicists had concluded that the concept of absolute space is not really needed...the ...

...India, De Morgan used to say that he was neither English nor Scottish nor Irish, but a Briton "unattached," using the technical term applied to an undergra ...eloped but remains a precursor to [[geometric algebra]] and influenced the Irish mathematician [[Sir William Rowan Hamilton]] in his development of [[quater ...

...e journal|last=Ray |first=T. P. |title=Stoney's Fundamental Units |journal=Irish Astronomical Journal |volume=15 |page=152 |year=1981 |bibcode=1981IrAJ...15 ...y linked at a fundamental physical level. Consequently, natural units help physicists to reframe questions. [[Frank Wilczek]] puts it succinctly: ...

The '''trigonometric Rosen–Morse potential''', named after the physicists [[Nathan Rosen]] and [[Philip M. Morse]], is among the exactly solvable [[L ...title=The Factorization of the Hypergeometric Equation |journal=Proc. Roy. Irish Acad. A |volume=47 |pages=53–54 |year=1941 |jstor=20488434 }}</ref> who int ...

...rk became a source of inspiration for the Cambridge school of mathematical physicists, which included Thomson himself, George Gabriel Stokes, and James Clerk Max ...phetically, that Cayley was "forging the weapons for future generations of physicists."<ref>{{Cite book |last=Kline |first=Morris |title=Mathematical Thought fro ...

...a bachelor's and master's degree by [[Trinity College Dublin]].{{R|"Weekly Irish Times 15 July 1905"}} The college had an arrangement where women, who had q <!--Weekly Irish Times--> ...

...562]. ([[Macquorn Rankine]] in the same year used the same symbol. The two physicists were in correspondence at the time, so that it is difficult to say which of ...of the constituent particles of objects, and in 1675, his colleague, Anglo-Irish scientist [[Robert Boyle]] repeated that this motion is what heat consists ...

...amed after French engineer and physicist [[Claude-Louis Navier]] and Anglo-Irish physicist and mathematician [[George Gabriel Stokes]].}} ...xactly zero. This is the notion of particle mass generally used by modern physicists. The photon does have a nonzero [[relativistic mass]], depending on its en ...

...author=G. Falkovich| year=2011 | title=Fluid Mechanics (A short course for physicists)|url=http://www.cambridge.org/gb/knowledge/isbn/item6173728/?site_locale=en ...amed after French engineer and physicist [[Claude-Louis Navier]] and Anglo-Irish physicist and mathematician [[Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet|George Gabriel ...