George Gabriel Stokes
1819 - 1903
- Born
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13 August 1819
Skreen, County Sligo, Ireland
- Died
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01/02/1903
Cambridge, England
- Nationality
- British
- Gender
- Male
- Date of election for Royal Society fellowship
- 05/06/1851
- Age at the time of election for Royal Society fellowship
- 32
- Occupation
- Physicist
- Relationships
- Parents: Gabriel Stokes (1762–1834), rector of Skreen and vicar-general of Killala, and Elizabeth, daughter of John Haughton, rector of Kilrea, co. Londonderry. Spouse: Mary Susanna (1823/4–1899), daughter of Irish astronomer (John) Thomas Romney Robinson (1793–1882) and his first wife, Eliza Isabelle Rambaut (d. 1839), of Huguenot descent (4 July 1857). Children: Susanna Elizabeth (died in infancy); Dora Susanna (died in infancy); William George Gabriel; Arthur Romney; Isabella Lucy.
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- Wikipedia
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Author of
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Unpublished appendix, 'Supplement to a paper on the theory of certain bands seen in the spectrum' by George Gabriel Stokes
Creator: George Gabriel Stokes Reference number: AP/31/18 -
Letter, regarding compounds of iodine and strychnine from William Bird Herapath to George Gabriel Stokes
Creator: George Gabriel Stokes Reference number: AP/36/19 -
Paper, 'On the cause of the light border frequently noticed in photographs just outside the outline of a dark body seen against the sky; with some introductory remarks on phosphorescence' by G G [George Gabriel] Stokes
Creator: George Gabriel Stokes Reference number: PP/2/9 -
Paper, 'On a remarkable phenomenon of crystalline reflection' by G G [George Gabriel] Stokes
Creator: George Gabriel Stokes Reference number: PP/6/19 -
Paper, 'On the theory of certain bands seen in the spectrum' by G G [George Gabriel] Stokes
Creator: George Gabriel Stokes Reference number: PT/34/14 -
Paper, 'On the change of refrangibility of light' by G G [George Gabriel] Stokes
Creator: George Gabriel Stokes Reference number: PT/45/2
Referee of
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Referee's report by George Gabriel Stokes, on a paper 'Researches on the geometrical properties of elliptic integrals' by James Booth
Creator: George Gabriel Stokes Reference number: RR/2/25 -
Letter from George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'Researches on the geometrical properties of elliptic integrals' by James Booth
Creator: George Gabriel Stokes Reference number: RR/2/26 -
Referee's report by George Gabriel Stokes, on a paper 'Further experiments on light' by Henry Lord Brougham
Creator: George Gabriel Stokes Reference number: RR/2/35 -
Referee's report by George Gabriel Stokes, on a paper 'On the attraction of ellipsoids considered geometrically' by Matthew Collins
Creator: George Gabriel Stokes Reference number: RR/2/48 -
Referee's report by George Gabriel Stokes, on a paper 'On the geometrical representation of the expansive action of heat, and the theory of thermo-dynamic engines' by William John Macquorn Rankine
Creator: George Gabriel Stokes Reference number: RR/2/198
Recipient of
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Unpublished extract of a letter, 'On the theory of the electric telegraph' from William Thomson to Gabriel George Stokes
Creator: William Thomson Reference number: AP/37/22 -
Letter, 'On the mathematical theory of the stability of earthwork and masonry' from W J [William John] Macquorn Rankine to George Gabriel Stokes
Creator: William John Macquorn Rankine Reference number: AP/38/13 -
Letter, regarding corrections to a paper by Thomas Woods from James P [Prescott] Joule to George Gabriel Stokes
Creator: James Prescott Joule Reference number: AP/38/14 -
Letter, 'On the detection of strychnia by the formation of iodostrychnine' from William Bird Herapath to George Gabriel Stokes
Creator: William Bird Herapath Reference number: AP/38/27 -
Letter, regarding the physical properties of ice from William Thomson to [George Gabriel] Stokes
Creator: William Thomson Reference number: AP/40/16 -
Letter, [William] Hopkins to [George Gabriel Stokes], dated at Cambridge
Creator: William Hopkins Reference number: HS/9/479
Most frequently corresponded with
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John Frederick William Herschel
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John Herschel
1 letter