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    John Lighton Synge FRSC FRS (/sɪŋ/; 23 March 1897 – 30 March 1995) was an Irish mathematician and physicist, whose seven-decade career included significant...
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  • John Synge may refer to: John Lighton Synge (1897–1995), Irish mathematician and physicist John Millington Synge (1871–1909), Irish dramatist, poet, prose...
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    of Edward Synge, Archbishop of Tuam, and Edward's son Nicholas, the Bishop of Killaloe. His nephews included mathematician John Lighton Synge and optical...
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  • Lighton may refer to: John Lighton Synge, Irish mathematician Louis D. Lighton, American screenwriter Lighton Baronets, a title in the Baronetage of Ireland...
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  • theoretical physicist John Lighton Synge. Edward Hutchinson Synge was born in 1890, in County Dublin, Ireland, to Edward Synge and Ellen Frances Price...
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  • near-field optical microscope John Lighton Synge (1897–1995), Irish mathematician and physicist John Millington Synge (1871–1909), Irish playwright,...
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  • geometry, Synge's theorem is a classical result relating the curvature of a Riemannian manifold to its topology. It is named for John Lighton Synge, who proved...
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    though he died before it was established and his plan was overseen by John Lighton Synge. The medal was first awarded in 1936 to Finnish mathematician Lars...
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  • circularity in dictionary definitions. Irish mathematician and physicist, John Lighton Synge, invented the multi-player, refereed game to emphasize the circular...
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    to a chemistry major and eventually, at the advice of his teacher John Lighton Synge, to mathematics. After graduating in 1948, with both a B.S. and M...
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