George Gabriel Stokes

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Date	Details
1819	Born
1855	Appointed Lecturer in Physics to the School of Mines
1859	Resigned
1849–1899	Lucasian Professor, Cambridge
1851	F.R.S.
1852	Rumford Medal
1969	President of the British Association
1885–1890	President of the Royal Society of London
1889	Baronet
1893	Copley Medal
1903	Died
1903	Died

Biographies and obituaries

Register R.S.M. 1896, p xciii

Memoir and Scientific Correspondence, J. Larmor (1907) (2 vols).

Proceedings Royal Society Vol. LXXV (1905) pp. 199-216

Barry, C.M. Truth above all things: G. G. Stokes. Irish Philosophy

Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet — Wikipedia article (contains many references)

George Gabriel Stokes: Life, Science and Faith. Edited by Mark McCartney, Andrew Whitaker, and Alastair Wood. OUP, 2019.