Thomas Henry Havelock


Sir Thomas Henry Havelock FRS was an English applied mathematician, hydrodynamicist and mathematical physicist. He is known for Havelock's law.
At age sixteen, Havelock entered Durham College of Physical Science. He matriculated in 1897 at St John's College, Cambridge and graduated there B.A. in 1900 and M.A. in 1904. From 1903 to 1909 he was a Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge. He was a professor of applied mathematics at Armstrong College from 1914 until his retirement in 1945.

Havelock's law

Relationship between the refractive index and the wavelength of a homogeneous material that transmits light:

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