STOKES (Sir George Gabriel, 1819-1903, Mathematician and Physicist, from 1849 Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge, 1st Bt.)

Typed “Notice” addressed to R. A. Neil, informing him of a “General College Meeting on Monday March 18 at 2-30 p.m. :- Business, To make a Statute or Statutes altering in certain respects the existing Statues of the College. By authority of the Master...”, 1 side oblong 4to., Cambridge, 7th March

Stokes was an Irish mathematician and physicist. Born in County Sligo, Ireland, Stokes spent all of his career at the University of Cambridge, where he was the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics from 1849 until his death in 1903. As a physicist, Stokes made seminal contributions to fluid mechanics, including the Navier–Stokes equations; and to physical optics, with notable works on polarisation and fluorescence. As a mathematician, he popularised "Stokes' theorem" in vector calculus and contributed to the theory of asymptotic expansions. Stokes, along with Felix Hoppe-Seyler, first demonstrated the oxygen transport function of haemoglobin, and showed colour changes produced by the aeration of haemoglobin solutions. He coined the term ‘fluorescence’, to avoid the older terms which suggested a mere dispersion.

Item Date:  1895

Stock No:  42931      £175

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