Augustus Edward Hough Love

Augustus Edward Hough Love
Augustus Edward Hough Love
Born	17 April 1863; Weston-super-Mare
Died	5 June 1940 (aged 77); Oxford, United Kingdom
Alma mater	St. John's College, Cambridge
Known for	Theory of elasticity; Lithosphere; Kirchhoff–Love plate theory; Love equivalence principle; Love number; Love wave;
Awards	Royal Medal (1909); Adams Prize (1911); De Morgan Medal (1926); Sylvester Medal (1937);
	Scientific career
Fields	Theory of elasticity; Geodynamics;
Institutions	University of Oxford
Doctoral students	G. H. Hardy

Augustus Edward Hough Love FRS (17 April 1863, Weston-super-Mare – 5 June 1940, Oxford), often known as A. E. H. Love, was an English mathematical physicist famous for research on elasticity. He also studied wave propagation. He won the Adams Prize in 1911 for his work on the structure of the Earth in Some Problems of Geodynamics, in which he developed a mathematical model of surface waves known as Love waves. Love also contributed to the theory of tidal locking and introduced the parameters known as Love numbers, used in problems related to Earth tides, the tidal deformation of the solid Earth due to the gravitational attraction of the Moon and Sun.