Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet
Died 1903-02-01.
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Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet
Sir George Gabriel Stokes, 1st Baronet, was an Irish mathematician and physicist. Born in County Sligo, Ireland, Stokes spent his entire career at the University of Cambridge, where he served as Lucasian Professor of Mathematics for 54 years—from 1849 until his death in 1903—the longest tenure held by any Lucasian Professor.
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Born 13 August 1819 · Died 1 February 1903 · Q155907
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1903· 1 entry
1902· 1 entry
Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet
Career landmark: Master of Pembroke College (1902–1903).
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1893· 1 entry
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Won Copley Medal (1893).
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1891· 1 entry
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Awarded Gifford Lectures (1891).
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1889· 1 entry
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Further served his university by representing it in parliament from 1887 to 1892 as one of the two members for the Cambridge University constituency
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1887· 1 entry
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Career landmark: member of the 24th Parliament of the United Kingdom (1887–1892).
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1886· 3 entries
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Awarded Actonian Prize (1886).
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Became president of the Victoria Institute, which had been founded to defend evangelical Christian principles against challenges from the new sciences, especially the Darwinian theory of biological evolution
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Career landmark: chairperson (1886–1903).
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1885· 1 entry
Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet
Career landmark: President of the Royal Society (1885–1890).
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1883· 1 entry
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During a lecture at the Royal Institution, Lord Kelvin said he had heard an account of it from Stokes many years before, and had repeatedly but vainly begged him to publish it
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1879· 1 entry
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Awarded Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order (1879).
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1871· 1 entry
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Lord Kelvin stated his belief that the application of the prismatic analysis of light to solar and stellar chemistry had never been suggested directly or indirectly by anyone else when Stokes taught it to him at Cambridg
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1862· 1 entry
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Prepared for the British Association a valuable report on double refraction, a phenomenon where certain crystals show different refractive indices along different axes
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1853· 1 entry
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An investigation of the metallic reflection exhibited by certain non-metallic substances
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1852· 2 entries
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Won Rumford Medal (1852).
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In his famous paper on the change of wavelength of light, he described the phenomenon of fluorescence, as exhibited by fluorspar and uranium glass, materials which he viewed as having the power to convert invisible ultra
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1851· 1 entry
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Awarded Fellow of the Royal Society (1851).
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1849· 5 entries
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– one on attractions and Clairaut's theorem, and the other on the variation of Earth's gravity at the surface of the planet (1849) – Stokes's gravity formula—also demand notice
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Stokes invented the Stokes lens to detect astigmatism
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Stokes published a long paper on the dynamical theory of diffraction, in which he showed that the plane of polarisation must be perpendicular to the direction of propagation
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Career landmark: Lucasian Professor of Mathematics (1849–1903).
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Stokes was appointed Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge, a position he held until his death in 1903
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1845· 2 entries
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By one on the friction of fluids in motion and the equilibrium and motion of elastic solids, and in 1850 by another on the effects of the internal friction of fluids on the motion of pendulums
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And 1846, and were followed in 1848 by one on the theory of certain bands seen in the spectrum
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1842· 1 entry
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And 1843, were on the steady motion of incompressible fluids and some cases of fluid motion
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1841· 2 entries
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Graduated as Senior Wrangler and Smith's Prizeman, achievements that earned him election as a fellow of the college that year
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Studied at Pembroke College (1837–1841).
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1837· 2 entries
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After attending schools in Skreen, Dublin, and Bristol, Stokes matriculated at Pembroke College, Cambridge
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Studied at City of Bristol College (1835–1837).
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1819· 1 entry
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Born 1819-08-13.
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