 Sir Thomas Lyle F.R.S. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Birth name | Thomas Ranken Lyle | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 26 August 1860 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Coleraine, County Londonderry, Ireland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | 31 March 1944 (aged 83) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of death | South Yarra, Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| University | Trinity College, Dublin | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Notable relative(s) | Dame Mary Herring (daughter) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Occupation(s) | Mathematical physicist | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rugby union career | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sir Thomas Ranken Lyle FRS[1] (26 August 1860 – 31 March 1944)[2][3] was an Irish-Australian mathematical physicist, radiologist, educator, and rugby player.
Lyle was born and educated in Ireland before emigrating to Australia to take up a professorship at the University of Melbourne. There he was a pioneer in the use of X-rays as a medical tool. The Thomas Ranken Lyle Medal is awarded in his name to honour Australian achievements in Physics and Mathematics.
In his earlier years in Ireland he was a rugby union forward of some note, who played club rugby for Dublin University and international rugby for Ireland.[4]
- ^ Grant, Kerr (1945). "Thomas Ranken Lyle. 1860-1944". Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society. 5 (14): 32–49. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1945.0003. S2CID 162395221.
- ^ "Biography of Sir Thomas Ranken Lyle". Australian Academy of Science. 8 January 2010. Archived from the original on 21 December 2010. Retrieved 6 June 2010.
- ^ R.W. Home, 'Lyle, Sir Thomas Ranken (1860–1944)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 10, Melbourne University Press, 1986, pp 172–174.
- ^ Thomas Lyle player profile Scrum.com