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Rugby player

Sir Thomas Ranken LyleFRS^[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]

Career

Lyle was born in Coleraine, Ireland in 1860, the second son of Hugh Lyle, a well-to-do landowner.^[5] He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, graduating in 1883 with full honours and student medals for his work in mathematics and physics.

He received his MA in 1