THE close of the present Easter term coincides with the end of the fiftieth year of the tenure by Sir George Gabriel Stokes of the Lucasian Professorship at Cambridge. Born in 1819, the same year ...

STOKES ranged over the whole domain of natural philosophy in his work and thought; just one field —electricity—he looked upon from outside, scarcely entering it. Hydrodynamics, elasticity of ...

In the north choir aisle of Westminster Abbey is a bronze roundel by Sir Hamo Thorneycroft to the memory of George Gabriel Stokes, physicist and mathematician. This shows a life-size bust in the round ...