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Alfred Arthur Robb FRS[1] (18 January 1873 in Belfast – 14 December 1936 in Castlereagh) was a Northern Irish physicist.[2]

  1. ^ Larmor, J. (1938). "Alfred Arthur Robb. 1873-1936". Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society. 2 (6): 315–326. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1938.0013.
  2. ^ Alfred Robb at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.

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