Sir George Gabriel Stokes 1819 - 1903

occupation:
Mathematician, Physicist
Nationality:
Irish
born in:
Skreen, Sligo, Connacht, Ireland

1849 - as Lucasian professor at Cambridge, lectured on recent research by the experimental physicists Michael Faraday and James Prescott Joule, including the magnetic rotation of light, lines of magnetic force, the magnetic field, and the dynamical theory of heat.

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