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 rather optimistic." Lamb is also known for description of special waves in thin solid layers. These are now known as Lamb waves. Lamb was survived by three sons and four daughters. The sons (who included Walter Lamb (classicist) and the painter Henry Lamb) were born at Adelaide, South Australia, and all became distinguished. He is buried at the Parish of the Ascension Burial Ground in Cambridge, with his wife. Honours and awards Lamb was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1884, was twice vice-president, received its Royal Medal in 1902 and, its highest honour, the Copley Medal in 1924. He was president of the London Mathematical Society 1902–1904, president of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, and president of the British Association in 1925. He was knighted in 1931. A room in the Alan Turing Building at the University of Manchester is named in his honour and in 2013 the Sir Horace Lamb Chair was created at Manchester. A building at the University of Adelaide also bears his name. Publications See also Lamb (crater) Lamb–Oseen vortex References External links 1849 births 1934 deaths English physicists 19th-century English mathematicians 20th-century English mathematicians Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge Fellows of the Royal Society Academics of the Victoria University of Manchester Recipients of the Copley Medal Royal Medal winners Fluid dynamicists Second Wranglers People educated at Stockport Grammar School People from Stockport De Morgan Medallists Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society