| Reference number | EC/1851/13 |
| Previous numbers | Cert IX, 279; A56681 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Stokes, Sir George Gabriel: certificate of election to the Royal Society |
| Citation | George Gabriel Stokes Esqre MA. The Author of a Paper on the Theory of certain Bands seen in the Spectrum, published in the Transactions of the Royal Society. Eminent as a Mathematician, having communicated to the Cambridge Philosophical Transactions, and to the Cambridge & Dublin Mathematical Journal various papers too numerous to specify in detail on questions in Hydrodynamics, Physical optics, Physical Astronomy, Mechanics and pure Mathematics, & being the Author of a Report on Hydrodynamics and of other communications published in the Reports of the British Association. |
| Proposers | From Personal Knowledge. Robert Willis MA, FRS, Jacksonian Professor, Cambridge; W Hopkins FRS & MA; W Whewell; Baden Powell; G Peacock; Wm Clark; J Hymers; A Sedgwick; J C Adams; John Bishop; W H Sykes; Chas Brooke; C Wheatstone |
| Access status | Open |
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Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | Name | Dates |
| NA8283 | Stokes; Sir; George Gabriel (1819 - 1903); physicist | 1819 - 1903 |