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Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet, the Glossary

Sir George Gabriel Stokes, 1st Baronet, (13 August 1819 – 1 February 1903) was an Irish mathematician and physicist.^[1]

156 relations: Aberration (astronomy), Absorption spectroscopy, Achromatic lens, Actonian Prize, Alexander Beresford Hope, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Philosophical Society, Archdeacon of Armagh, Arthur James Mason, Astigmatism, Asymptotic expansion, Ball bearing, Baronet, Bending, Birefringence, Bristol, British and Foreign Bible Society, British Science Association, Brittleness, Calcite, Cambridge, Cambridge University (UK Parliament constituency), Cast iron, Centimetre–gram–second system of units, Charles Darwin, Charles Edward Searle, Christian conditionalism, Church of Ireland, Clairaut's theorem (gravity), Conservative Party (UK), Copley Medal, County Sligo, Crookes radiometer, Crystal, Cylindrical lens, Dee Bridge disaster, Differential equation, Diffraction, Divergent series, Drag (physics), Dublin, Dublin City University, Electromagnetic spectrum, Evangelicalism, Evolution, Exeter, Expert witness, Felix Hoppe-Seyler, Fellow of the Royal Society, Fluid, ... Expand index (106 more) »
19th-century Irish physicists
Lucasian Professors of Mathematics
Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for the University of Cambridge
Scientists from County Sligo
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Aberration (astronomy)

In astronomy, aberration (also referred to as astronomical aberration, stellar aberration, or velocity aberration) is a phenomenon where celestial objects exhibit an apparent motion about their true positions based on the velocity of the observer: It causes objects to appear to be displaced towards the observer's direction of motion.

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Absorption spectroscopy

Absorption spectroscopy is spectroscopy that involves techniques that measure the absorption of electromagnetic radiation, as a function of frequency or wavelength, due to its interaction with a sample.

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Achromatic lens

An achromatic lens or achromat is a lens that is designed to limit the effects of chromatic and spherical aberration.

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Actonian Prize

The Actonian Prize was established by the Royal Institution as a septennial award for the "person who in the judgement of the committee of managers for the time being of the Institution, should have been the author of the best essay illustrative of the wisdom and beneficence of the Almighty, in such department of science as the committee of managers should, in their discretion, have selected".

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Alexander Beresford Hope

Sir Alexander James Beresford Beresford Hope PC (25 January 1820 – 20 October 1887), known as Alexander Hope until 1854 (and also known as A. J. B. Hope until 1854 and as A. J. B. Beresford Hope from 1854 onwards), was a British author and Conservative politician. Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet and Alexander Beresford Hope are members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for the University of Cambridge and uK MPs 1886–1892.

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American Academy of Arts and Sciences

The American Academy of Arts and Sciences (The Academy) is one of the oldest learned societies in the United States.

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American Philosophical Society

The American Philosophical Society (APS) is an American scholarly organization and learned society founded in 1743 in Philadelphia that promotes knowledge in the humanities and natural sciences through research, professional meetings, publications, library resources, and community outreach.

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Archdeacon of Armagh

The Archdeacon of Armagh is a senior ecclesiastical officer within the Anglican Diocese of Armagh.

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Arthur James Mason

Arthur James Mason (4 May 1851 – 24 April 1928) was an English clergyman, theologian and classical scholar.

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Astigmatism

Astigmatism is a type of refractive error due to rotational asymmetry in the eye's refractive power.

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Asymptotic expansion

In mathematics, an asymptotic expansion, asymptotic series or Poincaré expansion (after Henri Poincaré) is a formal series of functions which has the property that truncating the series after a finite number of terms provides an approximation to a given function as the argument of the function tends towards a particular, often infinite, point.

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Ball bearing

A ball bearing is a type of rolling-element bearing that uses balls to maintain the separation between the bearing races.

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Baronet

A baronet (or; abbreviated Bart or Bt) or the female equivalent, a baronetess (or; abbreviation Btss), is the holder of a baronetcy, a hereditary title awarded by the British Crown.

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Bending

In applied mechanics, bending (also known as flexure) characterizes the behavior of a slender structural element subjected to an external load applied perpendicularly to a longitudinal axis of the element.

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Birefringence

Birefringence is the optical property of a material having a refractive index that depends on the polarization and propagation direction of light.

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Bristol

Bristol is a city, unitary authority area and ceremonial county in South West England, the most populous city in the region.

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British and Foreign Bible Society

The British and Foreign Bible Society, often known in England and Wales as simply the Bible Society, is a non-denominational Christian Bible society with charity status whose purpose is to make the Bible available throughout the world.

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British Science Association

The British Science Association (BSA) is a charity and learned society founded in 1831 to aid in the promotion and development of science.

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Brittleness

A material is brittle if, when subjected to stress, it fractures with little elastic deformation and without significant plastic deformation.

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Calcite

Calcite is a carbonate mineral and the most stable polymorph of calcium carbonate (CaCO3).

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Cambridge

Cambridge is a city and non-metropolitan district in the county of Cambridgeshire, England.

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Cambridge University (UK Parliament constituency)

Cambridge University was a university constituency electing two members to the British House of Commons, from 1603 to 1950.

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Cast iron

Cast iron is a class of iron–carbon alloys with a carbon content of more than 2% and silicon content around 1–3%.

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Centimetre–gram–second system of units

The centimetre–gram–second system of units (CGS or cgs) is a variant of the metric system based on the centimetre as the unit of length, the gram as the unit of mass, and the second as the unit of time.

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Charles Darwin

Charles Robert Darwin (12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist, geologist, and biologist, widely known for his contributions to evolutionary biology. Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet and Charles Darwin are Recipients of the Copley Medal and Recipients of the Pour le Mérite (civil class).

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Charles Edward Searle

Charles Edward Searle (18 June 1828 in Hackney – 29 July 1902 in Cambridge) was an English clergyman and academic, Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge from 1880 until his death in 1902.

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Christian conditionalism

In Christian theology, conditionalism or conditional immortality is a concept in which the gift of immortality is attached to (conditional upon) belief in Jesus Christ.

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Church of Ireland

The Church of Ireland (Eaglais na hÉireann,; Kirk o Airlann) is a Christian church in Ireland, and an autonomous province of the Anglican Communion.

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Clairaut's theorem (gravity)

Clairaut's theorem characterizes the surface gravity on a viscous rotating ellipsoid in hydrostatic equilibrium under the action of its gravitational field and centrifugal force.

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Conservative Party (UK)

The Conservative and Unionist Party, commonly the Conservative Party and colloquially known as the Tories, is one of the two main political parties in the United Kingdom, along with the Labour Party.

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Copley Medal

The Copley Medal is the most prestigious award of the Royal Society, conferred "for sustained, outstanding achievements in any field of science".

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County Sligo

County Sligo (Contae Shligigh) is a county in Ireland.

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Crookes radiometer

The Crookes radiometer (also known as a light mill) consists of an airtight glass bulb containing a partial vacuum, with a set of vanes which are mounted on a spindle inside.

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Crystal

A crystal or crystalline solid is a solid material whose constituents (such as atoms, molecules, or ions) are arranged in a highly ordered microscopic structure, forming a crystal lattice that extends in all directions.

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Cylindrical lens

A cylindrical lens is a lens which focuses light into a line instead of a point as a spherical lens would.

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Dee Bridge disaster

The Dee Bridge disaster was a rail accident that occurred on 24 May 1847 in Chester, England, that resulted in five fatalities.

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Differential equation

In mathematics, a differential equation is an equation that relates one or more unknown functions and their derivatives.

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Diffraction

Diffraction is the interference or bending of waves around the corners of an obstacle or through an aperture into the region of geometrical shadow of the obstacle/aperture.

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Divergent series

In mathematics, a divergent series is an infinite series that is not convergent, meaning that the infinite sequence of the partial sums of the series does not have a finite limit.

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Drag (physics)

In fluid dynamics, drag, sometimes referred to as fluid resistance, is a force acting opposite to the relative motion of any object, moving with respect to a surrounding fluid.

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Dublin

Dublin is the capital of the Republic of Ireland and also the largest city by size on the island of Ireland.

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Dublin City University

Dublin City University (abbreviated as DCU) (Ollscoil Chathair Bhaile Átha Cliath) is a university based on the Northside of Dublin, Ireland.

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Electromagnetic spectrum

The electromagnetic spectrum is the full range of electromagnetic radiation, organized by frequency or wavelength.

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Evangelicalism

Evangelicalism, also called evangelical Christianity or evangelical Protestantism, is a worldwide interdenominational movement within Protestant Christianity that emphasizes the centrality of sharing the "good news" of Christianity, being "born again" in which an individual experiences personal conversion, as authoritatively guided by the Bible, God's revelation to humanity.

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Evolution

Evolution is the change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations.

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Exeter

Exeter is a cathedral city and the county town of Devon, South West England.

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Expert witness

An expert witness, particularly in common law countries such as the United Kingdom, Australia, and the United States, is a person whose opinion by virtue of education, training, certification, skills or experience, is accepted by the judge as an expert.

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Felix Hoppe-Seyler

Ernst Felix Immanuel Hoppe-Seyler (né Felix Hoppe; 26 December 1825 – 10 August 1895) was a German physiologist and chemist, and the principal founder of the disciplines of biochemistry and molecular biology.

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Fellow of the Royal Society

Fellowship of the Royal Society (FRS, ForMemRS and HonFRS) is an award granted by the Fellows of the Royal Society of London to individuals who have made a "substantial contribution to the improvement of natural knowledge, including mathematics, engineering science, and medical science".

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Fluid

In physics, a fluid is a liquid, gas, or other material that may continuously move and deform (flow) under an applied shear stress, or external force.

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Fluid dynamics

In physics, physical chemistry and engineering, fluid dynamics is a subdiscipline of fluid mechanics that describes the flow of fluids—liquids and gases.

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Fluid mechanics

Fluid mechanics is the branch of physics concerned with the mechanics of fluids (liquids, gases, and plasmas) and the forces on them.

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Fluorescence

Fluorescence is one of two kinds of emission of light by a substance that has absorbed light or other electromagnetic radiation.

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Fluorite

Fluorite (also called fluorspar) is the mineral form of calcium fluoride, CaF2.

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George Biddell Airy

Sir George Biddell Airy (27 July 18012 January 1892) was an English mathematician and astronomer, as well as the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics from 1826 to 1828 and the seventh Astronomer Royal from 1835 to 1881. Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet and George Biddell Airy are Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences, Lucasian Professors of Mathematics, presidents of the Royal Society, Recipients of the Copley Medal, Recipients of the Pour le Mérite (civil class) and senior Wranglers.

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Gifford Lectures

The Gifford Lectures are an annual series of lectures which were established in 1887 by the will of Adam Gifford, Lord Gifford at the four ancient universities of Scotland: St Andrews, Glasgow, Aberdeen and Edinburgh.

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Glasgow

Glasgow is the most populous city in Scotland, located on the banks of the River Clyde in west central Scotland.

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Glycerol

Glycerol, also called glycerine or glycerin, is a simple triol compound.

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Gravity

In physics, gravity is a fundamental interaction which causes mutual attraction between all things that have mass.

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Gustav Kirchhoff

Gustav Robert Kirchhoff (12 March 1824 – 17 October 1887) was a German physicist and mathematician who contributed to the fundamental understanding of electrical circuits, spectroscopy, and the emission of black-body radiation by heated objects. Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet and Gustav Kirchhoff are Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences, optical physicists and Recipients of the Pour le Mérite (civil class).

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Hail

Hail is a form of solid precipitation.

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Hamo Thornycroft

Sir William Hamo Thornycroft (9 March 185018 December 1925) was an English sculptor, responsible for some of London's best-known statues, including the statue of Oliver Cromwell outside the Palace of Westminster.

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Head of college

A head of college or head of house is the head or senior member of a college within a collegiate university.

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Hemoglobin

Hemoglobin (haemoglobin, Hb or Hgb) is a protein containing iron that facilitates the transport of oxygen in red blood cells.

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Henry Cecil Raikes

Henry Cecil Raikes PC (18 November 1838 – 24 August 1891) was a British Conservative Party politician. Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet and Henry Cecil Raikes are members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for the University of Cambridge and uK MPs 1886–1892.

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Honorary degree

An honorary degree is an academic degree for which a university (or other degree-awarding institution) has waived all of the usual requirements.

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Horace Lamb

Sir Horace Lamb (27 November 1849 – 4 December 1934R. B. Potts, '', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 5, MUP, 1974, pp 54–55. Retrieved 5 Sep 2009) was a British applied mathematician and author of several influential texts on classical physics, among them Hydrodynamics (1895) and Dynamical Theory of Sound (1910). Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet and Horace Lamb are presidents of the Cambridge Philosophical Society and Recipients of the Copley Medal.

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House of Commons of the United Kingdom

The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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Iceland spar

Iceland spar, formerly called Iceland crystal (silfurberg) and also called optical calcite, is a transparent variety of calcite, or crystallized calcium carbonate, originally brought from Iceland, and used in demonstrating the polarization of light.

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Integral

In mathematics, an integral is the continuous analog of a sum, which is used to calculate areas, volumes, and their generalizations.

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Internet Archive

The Internet Archive is an American nonprofit digital library founded in 1996 by Brewster Kahle.

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James Clerk Maxwell

James Clerk Maxwell (13 June 1831 – 5 November 1879) was a Scottish physicist with broad interests who was responsible for the classical theory of electromagnetic radiation, which was the first theory to describe electricity, magnetism and light as different manifestations of the same phenomenon. Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet and James Clerk Maxwell are optical physicists and presidents of the Cambridge Philosophical Society.

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John Eldon Gorst

Sir John Eldon Gorst, (24 May 1835 – 4 April 1916) was a British lawyer and politician. Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet and John Eldon Gorst are members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for the University of Cambridge and uK MPs 1886–1892.

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John Stokes (archdeacon of Armagh)

John Whitley Stokes (6 January 1801, Dublin – 27 November 1883, Armagh) was Archdeacon of Armagh from 1842 until his death.

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John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh

John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, (12 November 1842 – 30 June 1919) was a British mathematician and physicist who made extensive contributions to science. Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet and John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh are fluid dynamicists, Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences, optical physicists, presidents of the Royal Society, Recipients of the Copley Medal, Recipients of the Pour le Mérite (civil class) and senior Wranglers.

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Joseph Larmor

Sir Joseph Larmor (11 July 1857 – 19 May 1942) was an Irish and British physicist and mathematician who made breakthroughs in the understanding of electricity, dynamics, thermodynamics, and the electron theory of matter. Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet and Joseph Larmor are 19th-century British mathematicians, Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences, Lucasian Professors of Mathematics, members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for the University of Cambridge, presidents of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, Recipients of the Copley Medal and senior Wranglers.

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Joshua King

Joshua King (16 January 1798 – 1 September 1857) was the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge from 1839 to 1849. Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet and Joshua King are presidents of the Cambridge Philosophical Society and senior Wranglers.

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List of extant baronetcies

Baronets are a rank in the British aristocracy.

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List of masters of Pembroke College, Cambridge

The following persons have served as Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge.

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List of presidents of the Royal Society

The president of the Royal Society (PRS), also known as the Royal Society of London, is the elected Head of the Royal Society of London who presides over meetings of the society's council. Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet and List of presidents of the Royal Society are presidents of the Royal Society.

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Lord Kelvin

William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, (26 June 182417 December 1907) was a British mathematician, mathematical physicist and engineer born in Belfast. Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet and Lord Kelvin are 19th-century British mathematicians, British physicists, Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences, presidents of the Royal Society, Recipients of the Copley Medal and Recipients of the Pour le Mérite (civil class).

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Lucasian Professor of Mathematics

The Lucasian Chair of Mathematics is a mathematics professorship in the University of Cambridge, England; its holder is known as the Lucasian Professor. Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet and Lucasian Professor of Mathematics are Lucasian Professors of Mathematics.

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Marie Alfred Cornu

Marie Alfred Cornu (6 March 1841 – 12 April 1902) was a French physicist. Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet and Marie Alfred Cornu are Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences.

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Mathematician

A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems.

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Mathematics

Mathematics is a field of study that discovers and organizes abstract objects, methods, theories and theorems that are developed and proved for the needs of empirical sciences and mathematics itself.

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Member of the National Academy of Sciences

Membership of the National Academy of Sciences is an award granted to scientists that the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) of the United States judges to have made “distinguished and continuing achievements in original research”.

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Mill Road Cemetery, Cambridge

Mill Road Cemetery is a cemetery off Mill Road in the Petersfield area of Cambridge, England.

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National Academy of Sciences

The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a United States nonprofit, non-governmental organization.

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Natural theology

Natural theology, once also termed physico-theology, is a type of theology that seeks to provide arguments for theological topics (such as the existence of a deity) based on reason and the discoveries of science, the project of arguing for the existence of God on the basis of observed natural facts, and through natural phenomena viewed as divine, or complexities of nature seen as evidence of a divine plan (see predestination) or Will of God, which includes nature itself.

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Navier–Stokes equations

The Navier–Stokes equations are partial differential equations which describe the motion of viscous fluid substances.

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Niels Henrik Abel

Niels Henrik Abel (5 August 1802 – 6 April 1829) was a Norwegian mathematician who made pioneering contributions in a variety of fields.

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Optics

Optics is the branch of physics that studies the behaviour and properties of light, including its interactions with matter and the construction of instruments that use or detect it.

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Organic compound

Some chemical authorities define an organic compound as a chemical compound that contains a carbon–hydrogen or carbon–carbon bond; others consider an organic compound to be any chemical compound that contains carbon.

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Pembroke College, Cambridge

Pembroke College (officially "The Master, Fellows and Scholars of the College or Hall of Valence-Mary") is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England.

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Pendulum

A pendulum is a device made of a weight suspended from a pivot so that it can swing freely.

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Physical geodesy

Physical geodesy is the study of the physical properties of Earth's gravity and its potential field (the geopotential), with a view to their application in geodesy.

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Physical optics

In physics, physical optics, or wave optics, is the branch of optics that studies interference, diffraction, polarization, and other phenomena for which the ray approximation of geometric optics is not valid.

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Physicist

A physicist is a scientist who specializes in the field of physics, which encompasses the interactions of matter and energy at all length and time scales in the physical universe.

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Physics

Physics is the natural science of matter, involving the study of matter, its fundamental constituents, its motion and behavior through space and time, and the related entities of energy and force.

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Polarization (waves)

italics (also italics) is a property of transverse waves which specifies the geometrical orientation of the oscillations.

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Pour le Mérite

The Pour le Mérite, also informally known as the "Blue Max", is an order of merit (Verdienstorden) established in 1740 by King Frederick II of Prussia. Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet and Pour le Mérite are Recipients of the Pour le Mérite (civil class).

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Prussia

Prussia (Preußen; Old Prussian: Prūsa or Prūsija) was a German state located on most of the North European Plain, also occupying southern and eastern regions.

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Rainbow

A rainbow is an optical phenomenon caused by refraction, internal reflection and dispersion of light in water droplets resulting in a continuous spectrum of light appearing in the sky.

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Raman scattering

In physics, Raman scattering or the Raman effect is the inelastic scattering of photons by matter, meaning that there is both an exchange of energy and a change in the light's direction.

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Rector (ecclesiastical)

A rector is, in an ecclesiastical sense, a cleric who functions as an administrative leader in some Christian denominations.

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Rede Lecture

The Sir Robert Rede's Lecturer is an annual appointment to give a public lecture, the Sir Robert Rede's Lecture (usually Rede Lecture) at the University of Cambridge.

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Reflection (physics)

Reflection is the change in direction of a wavefront at an interface between two different media so that the wavefront returns into the medium from which it originated.

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Reynolds number

In fluid dynamics, the Reynolds number is a dimensionless quantity that helps predict fluid flow patterns in different situations by measuring the ratio between inertial and viscous forces.

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Richard Claverhouse Jebb

Sir Richard Claverhouse Jebb (27 August 1841 – 9 December 1905) was a British classical scholar and MP for Cambridge. Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet and Richard Claverhouse Jebb are members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for the University of Cambridge and uK MPs 1886–1892.

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Royal commission

A royal commission is a major ad-hoc formal public inquiry into a defined issue in some monarchies.

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Royal Institution

The Royal Institution of Great Britain (often the Royal Institution, Ri or RI) is an organisation for scientific education and research, based in the City of Westminster.

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Royal Society

The Royal Society, formally The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, is a learned society and the United Kingdom's national academy of sciences.

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RTÉ

i (Radio Television of Ireland; RTÉ) is an Irish public service broadcaster.

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Rumford Medal

The Rumford Medal is an award bestowed by the Royal Society for "outstanding contributions in the field of physics".

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Senior Wrangler

The Senior Wrangler is the top mathematics undergraduate at the University of Cambridge in England, a position which has been described as "the greatest intellectual achievement attainable in Britain". Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet and Senior Wrangler are senior Wranglers.

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Series (mathematics)

In mathematics, a series is, roughly speaking, the operation of adding infinitely many quantities, one after the other, to a given starting quantity.

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Skreen

Skreen is a small village and parish in County Sligo, Ireland.

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Smith's Prize

Smith's Prize was the name of each of two prizes awarded annually to two research students in mathematics and theoretical physics at the University of Cambridge from 1769.

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Spectroscopy

Spectroscopy is the field of study that measures and interprets electromagnetic spectra.

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St Patrick's Cathedral, Armagh (Church of Ireland)

St Patrick's Cathedral, Armagh (Ardeaglais Phádraig, Ard Mhacha) is a Church of Ireland cathedral in Armagh, Northern Ireland.

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Stokes baronets

The Stokes Baronetcy, of Lensfield Cottage in the Parish of Saint Paul in the Town of Cambridge, was a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom.

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Stokes flow

Stokes flow (named after George Gabriel Stokes), also named creeping flow or creeping motion,Kim, S. & Karrila, S. J. (2005) Microhydrodynamics: Principles and Selected Applications, Dover.

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Stokes lens

Stokes lens also known as variable power cross cylinder lens is a lens used to diagnose a type of refractive error known as astigmatism.

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Stokes number

The Stokes number (Stk), named after George Gabriel Stokes, is a dimensionless number characterising the behavior of particles suspended in a fluid flow.

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Stokes parameters

The Stokes parameters are a set of values that describe the polarization state of electromagnetic radiation.

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Stokes phenomenon

In complex analysis the Stokes phenomenon, discovered by, is where the asymptotic behavior of functions can differ in different regions of the complex plane.

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Stokes problem

In fluid dynamics, Stokes problem also known as Stokes second problem or sometimes referred to as Stokes boundary layer or Oscillating boundary layer is a problem of determining the flow created by an oscillating solid surface, named after Sir George Stokes.

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Stokes relations

In physical optics, the Stokes relations, named after Sir George Gabriel Stokes,Hecht, Eugene, Optics, Fourth Edition, describe the relative phase of light reflected at a boundary between materials of different refractive indices.

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Stokes shift

Stokes shift is the difference (in energy, wavenumber or frequency units) between positions of the band maxima of the absorption and emission spectra (fluorescence and Raman being two examples) of the same electronic transition.

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Stokes wave

In fluid dynamics, a Stokes wave is a nonlinear and periodic surface wave on an inviscid fluid layer of constant mean depth.

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Stokes' law

In fluid dynamics, Stokes' law is an empirical law for the frictional force – also called drag force – exerted on spherical objects with very small Reynolds numbers in a viscous fluid.

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Stokes' theorem

Stokes' theorem, also known as the Kelvin–Stokes theoremNagayoshi Iwahori, et al.:"Bi-Bun-Seki-Bun-Gaku" Sho-Ka-Bou(jp) 1983/12 (Written in Japanese)Atsuo Fujimoto;"Vector-Kai-Seki Gendai su-gaku rekucha zu.

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Stokes's law of sound attenuation

In acoustics, Stokes's law of sound attenuation is a formula for the attenuation of sound in a Newtonian fluid, such as water or air, due to the fluid's viscosity.

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Tay Bridge disaster

The Tay Bridge disaster occurred during a violent storm on Sunday 28 December 1879, when the first Tay Rail Bridge collapsed as a North British Railway (NBR) passenger train on the Edinburgh to Aberdeen Line from Burntisland bound for its final destination of Dundee passed over it, killing everybody on board.

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Telescope

A telescope is a device used to observe distant objects by their emission, absorption, or reflection of electromagnetic radiation.

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Tension (physics)

Tension is the pulling or stretching force transmitted axially along an object such as a string, rope, chain, rod, truss member, or other object, so as to stretch or pull apart the object.

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Terminal velocity

Terminal velocity is the maximum speed attainable by an object as it falls through a fluid (air is the most common example).

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Thermal conductivity and resistivity

The thermal conductivity of a material is a measure of its ability to conduct heat.

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Thomas Henry Huxley

Thomas Henry Huxley (4 May 1825 – 29 June 1895) was an English biologist and anthropologist who specialized in comparative anatomy. Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet and Thomas Henry Huxley are Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences, presidents of the Royal Society and Recipients of the Copley Medal.

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Thomas Romney Robinson

John Thomas Romney Robinson FRS FRSE (23 April 1792 – 28 February 1882), usually referred to as Thomas Romney Robinson, was a 19th-century Irish astronomer and physicist. Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet and Thomas Romney Robinson are 19th-century Irish physicists and Recipients of the Pour le Mérite (civil class).

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Transparency and translucency

In the field of optics, transparency (also called pellucidity or diaphaneity) is the physical property of allowing light to pass through the material without appreciable scattering of light.

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Ultraviolet

Ultraviolet (UV) light is electromagnetic radiation of wavelengths of 10–400 nanometers, shorter than that of visible light, but longer than X-rays.

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University of Aberdeen

The University of Aberdeen (abbreviated Aberd. in post-nominals; Oilthigh Obar Dheathain) is a public research university in Aberdeen, Scotland.

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University of Cambridge

The University of Cambridge is a public collegiate research university in Cambridge, England.

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University of Oslo

The University of Oslo (Universitetet i Oslo; Universitas Osloensis) is a public research university located in Oslo, Norway.

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Uranium glass

Uranium glass is glass which has had uranium, usually in oxide diuranate form, added to a glass mix before melting for colouration.

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Vector calculus

Vector calculus or vector analysis is a branch of mathematics concerned with the differentiation and integration of vector fields, primarily in three-dimensional Euclidean space, \mathbb^3.

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Victoria Institute

The Victoria Institute, or Philosophical Society of Great Britain, was founded in 1865, as a response to the publication of On the Origin of Species and Essays and Reviews.

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Viscometer

A viscometer (also called viscosimeter) is an instrument used to measure the viscosity of a fluid.

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Viscosity

The viscosity of a fluid is a measure of its resistance to deformation at a given rate.

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Wavelength

In physics and mathematics, wavelength or spatial period of a wave or periodic function is the distance over which the wave's shape repeats.

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Westminster Abbey

Westminster Abbey, formally titled the Collegiate Church of Saint Peter at Westminster, is an Anglican church in the City of Westminster, London, England.

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William Hopkins

William Hopkins FRS (2 February 179313 October 1866) was an English mathematician and geologist. Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet and William Hopkins are presidents of the Cambridge Philosophical Society.

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William Vernon Harcourt (scientist)

Rev.

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X-ray

X-rays (or rarely, X-radiation) are a form of high-energy electromagnetic radiation.

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1892 United Kingdom general election

The 1892 United Kingdom general election was held from 4 to 26 July 1892.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_George_Stokes,_1st_Baronet

Also known as G. G. Stokes, George G. Stokes, George Gabriel Stokes, George Gabriel, 1st Baronet Stokes, George Stokes, 1st Baronet, Sir George Gabriel Stokes, Sir George Stokes, Stokes, Sir George Gabriel, Stokes, Sir George Gabriel, first baronet (1819-1903).

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