Joseph Larmor in the context of "Lucasian Professor of Mathematics"

In electrodynamics, the Larmor formula is used to calculate the total power radiated by a nonrelativistic point charge as it accelerates. It was first derived by J. J. Larmor in 1897, in the context of the wave theory of light.

When any charged particle (such as an electron, a proton, or an ion) accelerates, energy is radiated in the form of electromagnetic waves. For a particle whose velocity is small relative to the speed of light (i.e., nonrelativistic), the total power that the particle radiates (when considered as a point charge) can be calculated by the Larmor formula:$${\displaystyle {\begin{aligned}P&={\frac {2}{3}}{\frac {q^{2}}{4\pi \varepsilon _{0}c}}\left({\frac {\dot {v}}{c}}\right)^{2}={\frac {2}{3}}{\frac {q^{2}a^{2}}{4\pi \varepsilon _{0}c^{3}}}\\[0.6ex]&={\frac {q^{2}a^{2}}{6\pi \varepsilon _{0}c^{3}}}=\mu _{0}{\frac {q^{2}a^{2}}{6\pi c}}&{\text{ (SI units)}}\\[1.5ex]P&={\frac {2}{3}}{\frac {q^{2}a^{2}}{c^{3}}}&{\text{ (cgs units)}}\end{aligned}}}$$where ${\displaystyle {\dot {v}}}$ or ${\displaystyle a}$ is the proper acceleration, ${\displaystyle q}$ is the charge, ${\displaystyle c}$ is the speed of light, and ${\displaystyle \mu _{0}=1/\varepsilon _{0}c^{2}}$ is the vacuum permeability. A relativistic generalization is given by the Liénard–Wiechert potentials.

In atomic physics, the Bohr model or Rutherford–Bohr model is an obsolete model of the atom that incorporated some early quantum concepts. Developed from 1911 to 1918 by Niels Bohr and building on Ernest Rutherford's discover of the atom's nucleus, it supplanted the plum pudding model of J. J. Thomson only to be replaced by the quantum atomic model in the 1920s. It consists of a small, dense atomic nucleus surrounded by orbiting electrons. It is analogous to the structure of the Solar System, but with attraction provided by electrostatic force rather than gravity, and with the electron energies quantized (assuming only discrete values).

In the history of atomic physics, it followed, and ultimately replaced, several earlier models, including Joseph Larmor's Solar System model (1897), Jean Perrin's model (1901), the cubical model (1902), Hantaro Nagaoka's Saturnian model (1904), the plum pudding model (1904), Arthur Haas's quantum model (1910), the Rutherford model (1911), and John William Nicholson's nuclear quantum model (1912). The improvement over the 1911 Rutherford model mainly concerned the new quantum mechanical interpretation introduced by Haas and Nicholson, but forsaking any attempt to explain radiation according to classical physics.