4151110McLAREN, SAMUEL BRUCE31public2016-05-01 06:44:162021-03-02 15:50:1920

McLARENMcLaren's career took a path common in Australian mathematics before World War II; while J. H. Michell returned to Melbourne in 1890 and lectured to McLaren, the latter was kept in Britain by the revolution in mathematical physics of which, along with Jeans, Einstein, Planck, Laue and Abraham, he was part. Attracted by fundamental ideas, McLaren published only on them—120 pages, concentrated in the period 1911-13, and summarized posthumously, with memoirs, as Scientific Papers (Cambridge, 1925). In 1913 he shared the Cambridge Adams prize with J. W. Nicholson. ADB entry1894SAMUEL BRUCE414S.B.515813151579295159633515842751590277917124http://discoveringanzacs.naa.gov.au/browse/person/42699McLAREN, SAMUEL BRUCE. 1894. S.C.; Ormond, and Trinity Cambridge; B.A., with 1st class final honours, and final scholarship and Wyselaskie Scholarship in Maths, and Dixson Scholarship (divided) in Nat. Phil.; went on to Trinity Coll. Camb., was third wrangler in the Math. Tripos, was awarded the Isaac Newton Research Scholarship, and divided the Adams prize. Appointed Professor of Mathematics in the University of Reading, and had been engaged on research "involving a recasting of the whole of the physics of matter and ether." In autumn of 1914 became member of an O.T.C.; Lieut. 39th Div. Sig. Coy. January 1915; to France January 1916 on expert communication work with R.E. At Briquetterie he went out with two volunteers to clear away a pit of bombs that had caught fire, and was wounded in the head; he returned again to the task, alone, and was wounded again and taken to No. 2 S.H., Abbeville, where he died a fortnight later, on 13th August 1916.79178377918237791843747064819189460968970

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